A Little Yawl Corsaro Information
Jib and jigger. What? If you have been a slave to main and jib, you probably don't know that a jigger is another sail. It's the little one so far back on deck that it's almost like it belonged to another boat.
Jigger is just another name for the mizzen. It is one of the sails that makes up the fore-and-aft rig which is what the yawl Corsaro has. The fore-and-aft rig has been around for a long time. Egyptian feluccas, Arabian dhows and the Chinese junk have been using this kind of rig for many centuries and are still in use in the areas where they began.
In the west, the fore-and-aft rig has seen many changes. From the dipping-lug rig on square riggers, to standing lugs, gaff rigs, spritsails and the modern Bermudan rig.
A true yawl like the yawl Corsaro, has the mizzen set abaft or behind the rudderpost and the mizzen area would be about 10 to 15 percent of the total sail area. It has some of the advantages of both the sloop and ketch. It is almost as weatherly as the sloop and like the ketch, can be used to add an easily handled mizzen staysail for light air or with mizzen and jib for heavy weather. At anchor, with the mizzen set with a reef or two, the boat no longer sails around it's mooring, instead, pointing quietly into the wind. The mizzen mast must be strongly stayed so the sail can be set to balance the jib in heavy weather. It can also be used to keep the boat head to wind in a real gale when used with a sea anchor off the bow.
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