amplifying
Hi,
You've hit on one of my favorite obsessions. In our shop, we call any stay with a sail on it a stays'l stay, and differentiate according to location. This reflects historical evolution. So we say "forestays'l" when we mean what others call a stays'l. Technically, inner and outer forestays go to different points on deck, but to a more or less common point on the mast. If the upper attachments are separated, we might, for instance, call the lower one the forestay and the upper one the jibstay. Again, this reflects rig evolution, and on large vessels it greatly simplifies locating and naming stays and sails.
The Solent Stay is made possible by roller furling; the slot is too narrow to tack through with a hank-on sail, but one can roll up to tack past it.
Fair leads,
Brion Toss
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