Staysail

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Work

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Arts and letters

Knowledge cost

3

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What Wikipedia says

A staysail ("stays'l") is a fore-and-aft rigged sail whose luff is affixed to a stay running forward (and most often but not always downwards) from a mast to the deck, the bowsprit, or to another mast.

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