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- Sprit_topmast abstract "A sprit topmast is a small topmast that was sometimes carried on the end of the bowsprit of a large European warship during the Age of Sail. Its purpose as initially built was to assist the spritsail (which hung below it) in bringing the head of the ship around when tacking.Unlike other topmasts, the sprit topmast, because of its odd angle, lacked a sheave. Instead, the short vertical pole (the mast proper) was secured to the bowsprit with a knee, and held a platform ("top") supported underneath by trestletrees and crosstrees and further secured to the bowsprit with a series of special chain plates. Above the platform ran a horizontal yard, the sprit topsail yard, from which a square square-rigged sail called the sprit topsail (the only sail on this mast) hung. Above this was a jackstaff. The mast was secured to the rear with a backstay that led to the foremast of the ship.The hoisting and hauling the spritsail top sail had to be done by a man standing on the spritsail platform without the security of any safety net. That the hauling of the sail usually had to be done specifically as the weather was turning bad meant that the task was particularly dangerous. When the implementation of the jib sail necessitated the removal of this topmast, few would mourn its passing. By the middle of the eighteenth century shipbuilders began using jibs to do the same job as the spritsail topmast with greater efficiency and less risk to human life. The stays for the jib sails made the spritsail top both irrelevant and inconvenient. By 1720 it ceased to be incorporated into new ship designs. Its place was taken by the jibboom, and its function and stay were replaced with the dolphin striker stay.".
- Sprit_topmast thumbnail Sprit_topmast_Kalmar_Nyckel_MD1.jpg?width=300.
- Sprit_topmast wikiPageID "39788808".
- Sprit_topmast wikiPageLength "2443".
- Sprit_topmast wikiPageOutDegree "20".
- Sprit_topmast wikiPageRevisionID "667056320".
- Sprit_topmast wikiPageWikiLink Age_of_Sail.
- Sprit_topmast wikiPageWikiLink Backstay.
- Sprit_topmast wikiPageWikiLink Bowsprit.
- Sprit_topmast wikiPageWikiLink Category:Sailing_ship_components.
- Sprit_topmast wikiPageWikiLink Chain_plates.
- Sprit_topmast wikiPageWikiLink Crosstrees.
- Sprit_topmast wikiPageWikiLink Dolphin_striker.
- Sprit_topmast wikiPageWikiLink Head_(watercraft).
- Sprit_topmast wikiPageWikiLink Jackstaff.
- Sprit_topmast wikiPageWikiLink Jib.
- Sprit_topmast wikiPageWikiLink Jibboom.
- Sprit_topmast wikiPageWikiLink Knee_(construction).
- Sprit_topmast wikiPageWikiLink Sheave.
- Sprit_topmast wikiPageWikiLink Shroud_(sailing).
- Sprit_topmast wikiPageWikiLink Spritsail_(square-rigged).
- Sprit_topmast wikiPageWikiLink Square_rig.
- Sprit_topmast wikiPageWikiLink Tacking_(sailing).
- Sprit_topmast wikiPageWikiLink Topmast.
- Sprit_topmast wikiPageWikiLink Trestletrees.
- Sprit_topmast wikiPageWikiLink Warship.
- Sprit_topmast wikiPageWikiLink File:Sprit_topmast_Kalmar_Nyckel_MD1.jpg.
- Sprit_topmast wikiPageWikiLinkText "Sprit topmast".
- Sprit_topmast wikiPageWikiLinkText "sprit topmast".
- Sprit_topmast hasPhotoCollection Sprit_topmast.
- Sprit_topmast wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Sprit_topmast subject Category:Sailing_ship_components.
- Sprit_topmast hypernym Topmast.
- Sprit_topmast comment "A sprit topmast is a small topmast that was sometimes carried on the end of the bowsprit of a large European warship during the Age of Sail. Its purpose as initially built was to assist the spritsail (which hung below it) in bringing the head of the ship around when tacking.Unlike other topmasts, the sprit topmast, because of its odd angle, lacked a sheave.".
- Sprit_topmast label "Sprit topmast".
- Sprit_topmast sameAs m.0w33bmp.
- Sprit_topmast sameAs Q17126756.
- Sprit_topmast sameAs Q17126756.
- Sprit_topmast wasDerivedFrom Sprit_topmast?oldid=667056320.
- Sprit_topmast depiction Sprit_topmast_Kalmar_Nyckel_MD1.jpg.
- Sprit_topmast isPrimaryTopicOf Sprit_topmast.