What are the 8 sails of a T Lynx

[Spam Hands]

Bear in mind that the questioner is a total landlubber. I have had some replies from chat but there is conflicting information.

The Trader Lynx has 8 sails. I would like to know what each of these is for the purposes of game function only, not real life naming function. This is to better know which sails of the 8 it has will benefit from staysails books and which will do so for squaresails books. Eg the 'Treatise on staysails'

In my mind a triangular sail has 3 points and a square sail has 4 points. The upper sail in between the fore and aft mast on the T Lynx looks like a triangle but the end is cut off giving it four points and making it a square (irregular quadrilateral).  

So the question is, in game terms, what do each of the 8 sails on a T Lynx count as (square, stay, other etc). Replying to the format below and adding descriptors to the ? marks would be ideal.

The three triangular sails at the front of the vessel are: ?

The lower square sail between the two vertical masts is: ?

The upper sail between the two vertical masts is: ?

The upper sail behind the rear mast is: ?

The lower sail behind the rear mast is: ?

 

Edited April 13, 2020 by Spam Hands
clarification

[Malcolm3]

in game there are 3 types of sails:

• Staysails - both jibs (on bowsprit) and staysails (between masts), also sail above gaff sail (if exists)
• Spankers - gaff or lateen sail usually attached to mizzen-mast (behind it), also gaff sails on fore-and-aft rigged ships and lateen sails on Xebeque
• Square sail - sails usually set perpendicular the ship. Lynx has only one such sail - foretopsail

Usually staysails and spankers contribute to sailing upwind, square sails - to sailing downwind.

[van stiermarken]

https://tallshiplynx.com/lynxx/

[Custard]

51 minutes ago, van stiermarken said:

https://tallshiplynx.com/lynxx/

This is not what OP is after bud, wants GAME ONLY info on the sails

[Tom Farseer]

3 hours ago, Spam Hands said:

The three triangular sails at the front of the vessel are: ? From fore to aft: Flying Jib, Jib, Staysail (all are technically different staysails, name changes with position)

The lower square sail between the two vertical masts is: ? Foresail (=Gaff sail on fore mast)

The upper sail between the two vertical masts is: ? Main Topmast Staysail (=Staysail fixed to Main Topmast)

The upper sail behind the rear (=Main) mast is: ? Main Topsail

The lower sail behind the rear mast is: ? Mainsail

In general every sail has a description of it's shape and position in it's name. In case you wanna know more here are two starting points:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sail_plan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_rigging

[Suppenkelle]

a good question, actually. :) The in-game distinction between square sails, stay sails and spanker origins from the fully rigged ships. Following that, I assume that only the one square sail on the yard is seen as a square sail on the T-Lynx. All others are either stay sails or spankers (in the words of the game).

[Macjimm]

[Tom Farseer]

4 minutes ago, Suppenkelle said:

a good question, actually. The in-game distinction between square sails, stay sails and spanker origins from the fully rigged ships. Following that, I assume that only the one square sail on the yard is seen as a square sail on the T-Lynx. All others are either stay sails or spankers (in the words of the game).

Spanker = Gaff sail on a square rigged ships mizzen (=aftmost) mast.
Staysails are just that. Sail that are attached to a stay (see wikipedia links in my other answer for more info)
Square sail = Sail that is rigged square to the ships longitudinal axis as opposed to fore-and-aft sails that are rigged along that axis (=gaff sails, gaff topsails and staysails). there are other numerous sail configurations but those few cover most of what you see in game.

TL;DR: What Malcolm3 said

Edited April 13, 2020 by Tom Farseer

[Suppenkelle]

Just now, Tom Farseer said:

Spanker = Gaff sail on a square rigged ships mizzen (=aftmost) mast.
Staysails are just that. Sail that are attached to a stay (see wikipedia links in my other answer for more info)
Square sail = Sail that is rigged square to the ships longitudinal axis as opposed to fore-and-aft sails that are rigged along that axis (=gaff sails, gaff topsails and staysails). there are other numerous sail configurations but those few cover most of what you see in game.

Tom, I know all that. But that was not the question that op had

 

[Tom Farseer]

Just now, Suppenkelle said:

Spanker = Gaff sail on a square rigged ships mizzen (=aftmost) mast.
Staysails are just that. Sail that are attached to a stay (see wikipedia links in my other answer for more info)
Square sail = Sail that is rigged square to the ships longitudinal axis as opposed to fore-and-aft sails that are rigged along that axis (=gaff sails, gaff topsails and staysails). there are other numerous sail configurations but those few cover most of what you see in game.

And now, hopefully even more people will know it 😃 His original questions was already answered above

[Spam Hands]

Thanks for the replies.