Either "take with a grain of salt" or try to find a low sodium
substitute 8-D
They're not "telescoping" sections per se, but they can be raised,
lowered, removed & replaced.
Looking again at Christine's image of the "Friendship" in Salem, MA it
does look like the Mizzen Topmast has been lowered. There's a stub of
the lower mast that protrudes above the crosstrees (that little platform
in the middle of the masts). The lower part of the mast is that vertical
black stripe.
The three masts are the Foremast (in the front), Mainmast (in the
middle) & the Mizzen (Mizzenmast). Usually on a full rigged ship the
Mainmast is the tallest, the Foremast is the second tallest, and the
Mizzen is the third tallest. The sections of a mast (from the deck up)
are the Lower (or "Mast"), Topmast, Topgallant mast, Royal mast.
In Paul's photo the Topgallant masts are fitted on all three masts. In
Christine's photo, only the Topmasts appear to be fitted & the Mizzen
Topmast appears to be in a stowed position.
Typically, sailing ships would carry spare sections of masts & spars in
case part of a mast was carried away in a storm. In an emergency, one of
the spars could be substituted for a portion of a mast. Technically, all
masts, booms, yards or gaffs are spars; their names tell as much about
how they are rigged as about their size & shape. The tapering spars that
hold the tops of the square sails are called "yards".
One good source for nautical terms & how they're used are the works of
C.S. Forrester, particularly the Horatio Hornblower series. Another good
source (although not quite so much fun) is Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_rigged_ship
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigging
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yard_%28sailing%29
Everything I know about the subject came from one of those two sources.
PS: http://www.ageofsail.net/aostermi.asp
PPS: A full rigged ship with three full masts (Mast, Topmast &
Topgallant Mast) would nominally have had 9 yards (3 x 3) to hold up
it's sails, and has been suggested as the source of the expression "the
whole nine yards".
On 6/29/2014 1:11 PM, Jack Davis wrote:
Thanks, John. I'm unable to decipher your salty nautical jargon, but
I may have asked a question a couple days ago that you may have just
answered. I mused about the possibility that one or more of these
masks might typically have a telescoping upper section that could be
lowered or raised. I wondered if Christine's schooner's aft mast
might have been lowered to accommodate a desired sail configuration.
To your knowledge, is it possible? Thanks!
Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: "John"
<[email protected]> To: "PDML" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday,
June 29, 2014 9:13:40 AM Subject: Re: road trip pics
Looks like the same ship to me.
In Paul's photo the Topmasts & Topgallant masts are fitted.
In Christine's photo the Topgallant masts are not fitted & Mizzen
Topmast is not stepped.
In both photos it's the same square-rigged, three-masted hull.
http://www.salemweb.com/frndship/
PS: It's not a schooner. Christine's IMG1006 is a schooner.
On 6/28/2014 9:04 AM, Paul wrote:
Yeah, I saw that, but thought it was a optical illusion because one
is facing in and the other facing out. I guess they're similar but
not the same.
-p
On 6/27/2014 5:27 PM, Jack Davis wrote:
Well, OK. They both have three masts, but yours are all tall
while Christine's has two tall masts and one much shorter mast.
IOW, they are not the same schooner. Now tell me you hadn't
noticed the difference.
J
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul" <[email protected]> To: "PDML" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 12:08:39 PM Subject: Re: road trip
pics
Three each? Or am I missing something?
-p
On 6/27/2014 12:17 PM, Jack Davis wrote:
The mast counts do not match up, Paul. That's how busy I am
today. :-\
Jack
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul"
<[email protected]> To: "PDML" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday,
June 27, 2014 9:44:49 AM Subject: Re: road trip pics
A fun chronicle of your trip. Glad to hear it was a good
stress reliever.
Haven't seen the Liberty Bell since 1967. It's nice to see it's
not buried in security. ...and I *do* like the selfie.
I think I have a pix of that same ship in Salem...but taken
late on a chilly, November day.
http://tinyurl.com/oe6p742
-p
On 6/26/2014 12:28 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote:
Thanks for the trip Christine. Nice to see the Liberty Bell
again and the kids, plus Boston Harbor with the jet landing
at Logan. My cousin lives in Salem and it's a quaint town. It
goes crazy for Haloween with the witches and all. The Mark
Twain study and your selfie does capture you 2. Glad you
missed the deer on the way home. They could ruin a good
vacation. Regards, Bob S.
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Christine Aguila
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Everyone:
Just a few road trip pics—nothing great. We visited a lot
of author homes, but unfortunately no interior photography
was allowed, so I spared you the exterior shots of the
houses. I do include Mark Twain’s Study—an octagon shaped
building specifically built for him at his in-laws’ farm
near Elmira, NY—built so he could write undisturbed during
his summer visits to the farm. This building is now owned
by Elmira College and located on campus. There was no
student ambassador around to let us in, but I took some
photos through the windows and converted to BW. They are
included here.
Visiting the author homes was great—fun to stand in
Emerson’s study, the bedrooms where Little Women was
written (Concord, MA) and that tiny women in Amherst, MA
penned all those delightful poems, and, of course, seeing
the Seven Gables that inspired the House of Seven Gables
was fun as well (Salem, MA). Twain’s home in Hartford, CT
is absolutely amazing and very well preserved, but
interestingly, the Emerson family STILL owns Emerson’s
home: the tour guide informed us, “We all work for the
Emerson family.” Something really cool about that. Sara
Orne Jewett’s house in South Berwick, ME is also a great
house, but the town is not much to speak of.
I’d never seen Philly, so we did all the historical stuff
in one day, then left early the next for Hartford et al.
Spent a few days in Boston—Freedom Trail, Boat ride, and
Museum of Fine Arts—the Copley collection there is
fantastic—then headed for Salem, MA.
We also paid homage to author tombstones, but I spared you
those photos as well, though Sleepy Hollow was amazing—many
pilgrims travel to these markers and leave stones, pencils,
pens, other trinkets—lots of small stones at Dickinson’s
marker. Chronic dappled lighting made the markers somewhat
of challenge to photograph. Famous people seem to love
pretty spots near trees.
We traveled for 16 days by car, moved on nearly every 1-3
days. As I look back now it was a dizzying pace, and the
driving challenging: I nearly got us killed at a small
round-about in Concord, MA.
And we drove 12 hours straight from Elmira, NY to Chicago.
The drive home started early, and we had the road nearly to
ourselves, enjoying the quiet, morning fog, and the lovely
tree studded hills and valleys of NY. But then a large doe
jumped out in front of us. Fortunately, Darrel swerved
right, the doe kept left, leaving no damage to car, person,
or animal. I gushed over Darrel for his quick response, and
the trip continued uneventful, that is, until we were
literally 5 minutes from home. At a speed about 15 miles
per hour, I turned a corner for the final 5 minute stretch
home, only to have to slow down to let one of our
neighborhood deer, traveling about .5 miles per hour, cross
the road. Uncanny!
Anyway, here are the pics! Cheers, Christine
http://www.caguila.com/pdmllit/index.html -- PDML
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