![A sailing vessel with numbered sails: 1. Flying jib, 2. Jib, 3. Fore staysail, 4. Foresail, 5. Fore gaff topsail, 6. Main topmast staysail, 7. Mainsai Stock Vector Image & Art - Alamy A sailing vessel with numbered sails: 1. Flying jib, 2. Jib, 3. Fore staysail, 4. Foresail, 5. Fore gaff topsail, 6. Main topmast staysail, 7. Mainsai Stock Vector Image & Art - Alamy](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2B76Y1K/a-sailing-vessel-with-numbered-sails-1-flying-jib-2-jib-3-fore-staysail-4-foresail-5-fore-gaff-topsail-6-main-topmast-staysail-7-mainsai-2B76Y1K.jpg)
A sailing vessel with numbered sails: 1. Flying jib, 2. Jib, 3. Fore staysail, 4. Foresail, 5. Fore gaff topsail, 6. Main topmast staysail, 7. Mainsai Stock Vector Image & Art - Alamy
![depths of wikipedia on X: "can't stop laughing at at how many sails (with names like "flying jib"!!!!) are on this sailboat https://t.co/JEr6Er2MRO" / X depths of wikipedia on X: "can't stop laughing at at how many sails (with names like "flying jib"!!!!) are on this sailboat https://t.co/JEr6Er2MRO" / X](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FeF8PR4XEAI_aA7.jpg)
depths of wikipedia on X: "can't stop laughing at at how many sails (with names like "flying jib"!!!!) are on this sailboat https://t.co/JEr6Er2MRO" / X
Navalapp - 🚩 Free-flying sails are sails attached to the rig only through their corners (no sail edge is attached to the rig). 🔸 Symmetric Spinnakers are free-flying sails with equal luff
Here is an interesting view of a flying Jib set with a J 3 headsail and the rest of the down wind sails set so you can check the crossovers.... | By
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![Flying Jib: the outermost of two or more jibsJib: a foresail, a triangle shaped sail forward of the mastFore Staysail: the triangular foresail next forward of… | 艦船 Flying Jib: the outermost of two or more jibsJib: a foresail, a triangle shaped sail forward of the mastFore Staysail: the triangular foresail next forward of… | 艦船](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/21/ee/77/21ee77d3c48b944f967518447629be08.png)
Flying Jib: the outermost of two or more jibsJib: a foresail, a triangle shaped sail forward of the mastFore Staysail: the triangular foresail next forward of… | 艦船
![How did traditional ships use the jib sails when tacking? Readjusting then seems hard since they overlap. : r/sailing How did traditional ships use the jib sails when tacking? Readjusting then seems hard since they overlap. : r/sailing](https://preview.redd.it/2m95rakeeq651.jpg?auto=webp&s=0165cc31d87697dcfd8a1db4668c6b61c7526be0)