This photo is in the latest issue of Cruising World. I have never seen this rig before.
Tim in STL
White O’morn NS e26U #216
Harbor Point Yacht Club
West Alton, MO
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It is a standing wishbone gaff ketch. The wishbone is adjusted by a sheet that runs down the mizzen mast.
Below is the 60’ west country coasting ketch Fortis. She was converted to a standing gaff rig after the war by Admiral Burgess Watson when he could not afford to pay for a paid hand to haul up the heavy gaff canvas sail and gaff boom.. The standing gaff rig allows the sail to be brailed like those of Thames barges that often sailed with just a skipper and a boy as crew. They were one of the last commercial sail powered water craft.
John Newell
Mascouche 26C #1
Toronto
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Jean
Third Base
Mtl
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