Subject: RE: Heave Up Songs From: Barry - PM Date: 10 Oct 97 - 03:38 PM
Fenian, try 'with the ring-tail set all about the mizzen peak'. A ring-tail is a small sail that would be set behind the spanker, the mizzen would be the aft mast (mizzen sail the most aft sail) & peak, you guessed it, the peak. The dolphin striker would be the short spar pointing towards the sea (thus the dolphin striker), that juts downwards from the bowspirit (or widowmaker). The standing rigging would run from the end of the bowspirit to the tip of the dolphin striker then to the bow or stem, this would help to distribute (throughout the vessel) the strains that the mast would put on the rigging that runs from the mast crosstrees & peaks.