From: rail@greywall.demon.co.uk   
      
   On 21/11/2019 21:23, MB wrote:   
   > On 21/11/2019 19:37, Graeme Wall wrote:   
   >> On 21/11/2019 14:48, Evertjan. wrote:   
   >>> Graeme Wall  wrote on 21 Nov 2019 in   
   >>> soc.genealogy.britain:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Also trying to work out how a dismasted ship managed to keep goingƒ Ý   
   >>>   
   >>> Putting sails on the broken poles.   
   >>   
   >> Presuming the stumps are high enough and there is enough spare canvas   
   >> still available.   
   >>   
   >>> Rowing.   
   >>   
   >> Not practical far a large (fsvo) vessel   
   >>   
   >>> Towing.   
   >>   
   >> Again, not practical for any length of time   
   >>   
   >>> Just floating.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> That's not continuing the voyage.   
   >>   
   >> In reality I suspect she lost her topmasts and tried to continue with   
   >> just fore and mainsais.   
   >>   
   >   
   > I think both times that it happened the mast broke part way up.   
      
   Most likely the topmast snapping off, not an unusual occurrence in heavy   
   seas and a poorly-maintained vessel. The ship would still be sailable   
   but with reduced manouverability, especially in high winds.   
      
   >   
   > ON the second attempt, the storm was so bad that they could really do   
   > much.  They tried to get around the Southern tip of the islands but were   
   > blown towards Vatersay.  They tried to beach it but it broke up.   
      
   Off a lee shore and lacking the finesse the topsails would have given   
   them, they had little chance.   
      
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