Re: seven sheets, or nine...

Just a guess here... If the boat has headsails, you have 2 sheets per
sail. One for Port, one for Starboard.

Scott Calman

--- In bolger@y..., "brucehallman" <brucehallman@y...> wrote:
> Ref: the recent
> MAIB V19#23 Bolger on Design:
>
> Navel Jelly Instant Galley
>
> :)
> Well, once again PCB floats a boat
> design which catches my imagination,
>
> Try as I might, I can't count the
> "seven sheets, or nine" that he
> writes about in the latest issue
> of Messin' About in Boats.
>
> What am I missing here, I count
> four sails plus two. ...four or
> six sheets. How does he count
> seven or nine?
>
> Maybe I don't understand the proper
> definion of "sheet". I thought a
> sheet was 'a rope which controls
> the angle of a sail to the wind'.
> Usually attached to the clew, or
> to the boom of the sail. One sheet
> per sail usually, except maybe for
> junk rigs which have a sheet for
> each batten, etc...
>
> The main and mizzen masts have stays
> which would need to be handled when
> tacking, [I think], but those lines
> wouldn't be 'sheets' per se, and
> they don't add up to seven or nine.
>
> What am I missing here?

"What am I missing here?"

I think that it may be those three sheets that are flappin in the
wind that the person who counted was experiencing.

--- In bolger@y..., "brucehallman" <brucehallman@y...> wrote:
> Ref: the recent
> MAIB V19#23 Bolger on Design:
>
> Navel Jelly Instant Galley
>
> :)
> Well, once again PCB floats a boat
> design which catches my imagination,
>
> Try as I might, I can't count the
> "seven sheets, or nine" that he
> writes about in the latest issue
> of Messin' About in Boats.
>
> What am I missing here, I count
> four sails plus two. ...four or
> six sheets. How does he count
> seven or nine?
>
> Maybe I don't understand the proper
> definion of "sheet". I thought a
> sheet was 'a rope which controls
> the angle of a sail to the wind'.
> Usually attached to the clew, or
> to the boom of the sail. One sheet
> per sail usually, except maybe for
> junk rigs which have a sheet for
> each batten, etc...
>
> The main and mizzen masts have stays
> which would need to be handled when
> tacking, [I think], but those lines
> wouldn't be 'sheets' per se, and
> they don't add up to seven or nine.
>
> What am I missing here?

Ref: the recent
MAIB V19#23 Bolger on Design:

Navel Jelly Instant Galley

:)
Well, once again PCB floats a boat
design which catches my imagination,

Try as I might, I can't count the
"seven sheets, or nine" that he
writes about in the latest issue
of Messin' About in Boats.

What am I missing here, I count
four sails plus two. ...four or
six sheets. How does he count
seven or nine?

Maybe I don't understand the proper
definion of "sheet". I thought a
sheet was 'a rope which controls
the angle of a sail to the wind'.
Usually attached to the clew, or
to the boom of the sail. One sheet
per sail usually, except maybe for
junk rigs which have a sheet for
each batten, etc...

The main and mizzen masts have stays
which would need to be handled when
tacking, [I think], but those lines
wouldn't be 'sheets' per se, and
they don't add up to seven or nine.

What am I missing here?