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pencilears:
Dear Jeph,
 I saw your booth today at the emerald city comicon and  make some statements about your drawing of the cast on a boat that I now seek to back up with pictures of other small boats for you to reference should boat drawing be a necessary subject of future drawings. I understand the stays are hard to see on most of these pictures but trust me, with out them the mast falls down.

and I hope that it will be, as boats are fun and are also useful plot devices if you want some kind of emotional drama on the high seas.

http://www.geocities.com/garylambda/SailingPhotos.html
is me and my Dad in Dad's  swampscot dory the TigerLilly

http://www.ghboats.com/17_skiff.shtm
is a jersey skiff which is similar to the boat that you no doubt originally intended to draw

http://www.cwb.org/BoatDatabaseSailMed.htm
is the center for wooden boats, unfortunately they only have small pictures

http://members.shaw.ca/jamie.orr/Sucia%202005/20047.htm
fools and Canadians trying to sail to the middle of the sound with no wind, some reasonable pictures all small pictures expand to a more reasonable size

http://www.boat-links.com/Sucia/
more boat photos than anyone could ever reasonably need.

Surgoshan:

--- Quote from: pencilears on 10 May 2008, 20:58 --- boats are fun and are also useful plot devices if you want some kind of emotional drama on the high seas.

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Psh.  If you really want drama, you put someone in the middle of the ocean without a boat.


Anyway, to clarify for the incognoscenti, the stay is the line that holds a mast up.  When you're sailing, the wind pushes the sail, which pulls on the mast, which pulls the boat.  Without the stay, the mast would just fall forward (in a square-rigged ship, at least).  In the second picture, the sail at the front of the boat is a stay sail and it's drawn up and down on the forward stay (there to balance the back stay).

JReynolds:

--- Quote from: Surgoshan on 11 May 2008, 10:02 ---Anyway, to clarify for the incognoscenti, the stay is the line that holds a mast up.... 

--- End quote ---

<pedantry>Stays and lines are both ropes. Stays hold up the mast(s). Lines hold up (and otherwise adjust) the sails. </pedantry>

tomselleck69:
are you...


a boat fetishist?

Surgoshan:

--- Quote from: JReynolds on 11 May 2008, 13:07 ---
--- Quote from: Surgoshan on 11 May 2008, 10:02 ---Anyway, to clarify for the incognoscenti, the stay is the line that holds a mast up.... 

--- End quote ---

<pedantry>Stays and lines are both ropes. Stays hold up the mast(s). Lines hold up (and otherwise adjust) the sails. </pedantry>

--- End quote ---

My bad.  My knowledge of sailing (far from encyclopedic) is based mostly on the works of Patrick O'Brian.  He discusses stays, preventer-stays, preventer-back-stays and more... but I don't recall any differentiation of lines.

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