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I count more than four masts. Just saying.

thanks jolly ! joe.... there are two ships docked... . but you knew that..

Plus neither of the ships in the enlargement are schooners. The four masted vessel is a barque (three masts square rigged, mizzen fore and aft rigged) The second vessel is ship rigged (square rigged on all three masts).
The vessel to starboard of the forward ship is possibly a four masted schooner.

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Les

This is a four masted schooner.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1586386093.jpg

Note there are no yards (the cross poles on the masts ) such as are seen on the vessels in the enlargement.

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Les

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Originally Posted by oldE (Post 10816609)

Note there are no yards (the cross poles on the masts ) such as are seen on the vessels in the enlargement.

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Les

This one has one yard.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1586388133.jpg

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Originally Posted by Jolly Amaranto (Post 10816639)

This one has one yard.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1586388133.jpg

She might possibly carry one square sail on the foremast which would make her a topsail schooner.

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Les

I remember many years ago there were two 4 masted schooners derelict along the coast of Maine at Wiscasset. I suppose they are long gone by now.
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Originally Posted by Jolly Amaranto (Post 10816094)

Here is a cropped version.

Those masts must be 10+ feet across at the base!

Big heavy weight with torque on top.
Skinny boat.
Not good in high seas.

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Originally Posted by john70t (Post 10816728)

Those masts must be 10+ feet across at the base!

Big heavy weight with torque on top.
Skinny boat.
Not good in high seas.

Ha... no, about 3 feet at the deck. a bit more down at the hull.

High seas? That's why you reef some of the sails. No problem.

RE. schooners. These boats sat very low in the water also.. especially when loaded with 100 tons of grain or wood. They in general were not very tender at all. BTW. most of them only sailed downwind also., In fact they needed huge amounts of ballast in the hold,.. usually just rock, ( in the absence of cargo...) the ballast was dumped in the harbors prior to loading. in fact here in philadelphia and the delaware river, these huge piles of ballast on the sea/river floor form the best places to fish nowadays.. ...many of us have "rockpile coordinates" in our gps .