Trysail

A small fore-and-aft sail hoisted abaft the foremast and mainmast in a storm to keep a ship's bow to the wind.

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Sails spars and rigging


Sails, Spars and Rigging
Sails
Course | Driver | Extra | Genoa | Gennaker | Jib | Lateen | Mainsail | Spanker | Spinnaker | Staysail | Studding | Tallboy | Topgallant | Topsail | Trysail
Sail Anatomy
Clew | Dacron | Foot | Head | Kevlar | Leech | Luff | Tack
Spars
Boom | Bowsprit | Gaff | Mast | Mast (Fore) | Mast (Jigger) | Mast (Main) | Mast (Mizzen) | Masthead Truck | Spar | Spinnaker Pole | Yard
Rigging Components
Backstay | Block | Cleat | Cunningham | Forestay | Gooseneck | Guy | Halyard | Knot | Peak | Preventer | Rigging | Rigging (Running) | Rigging (Standing) | Rope | Sheet | Shroud | Stays | Throat | Truck

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See also: Trysail, Backstay, Block (sailing), Boom (sailing), Bowsprit, Cleat, Clew, Course (sail)