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Schooner Sailplan
Document Type: Photo/Image
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Date: 1980s
Creator: Nova Scotia Museum
ID Number: Schooner_2_Profile
Keywords: Shipping, Schooner, Sails
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Description:
Schooners are fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessels, with at least two masts; the after mast is the same height or taller than the foremast. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, all schooners had only two masts.
The diagram is from the Nova Scotia Museum Informational poster, Sailing Ship Rigs.
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