Talk:Staysail

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This seems all wrong to me... at least, it may well be right in terms of common usage, but the actual definitions I learned and sailed by for years were:

A jib is a triangular sail that runs up a stay, typically the forestay on a small boat.

A staysail has its own stay built in, so the foot will be attached (eg to a point on the bowsprit or foredeck) and the head hoisted, without the benefit of an existing line.

Otherwise, they are equivalent sails; though, by implication, only a jib can be 'hanked on'!

help!
A diagram would give me some idea of what is being talked about. I'm sorry and i'm not at all being rude when i say that, as a land lubber, after reading this article i was left no wiser than before. This has happened to me now on many sailing articles i have accessed and i always come to the same conclusion that a few well placed diagrams and drawings would do the trick. After all, most of us have seen pictures and films showing various sailing craft, we just don't know a lot of the actual terminology. Diagrams would just complete the picture!

Thanks for listening and love to all fellow Wikipedians —Preceding unsigned comment added by Outofthewoods (talk • contribs) 03:16, 23 June 2009 (UTC)