Staysail

As a fore- staysail those are called, whose luff is attached to a mast, but on a Stag. The attachment to the Stag is usually done on hanks or on a sewn on the sail luff rope, which is inserted into the groove of a profile tags.

The Stagsegeln count for a headsail, ie on smaller boats such as yachts, the jib or genoa, on larger vessels also jib, Jager and flyers. On the other staysail can be driven on mehrmastigen ships to the shrouds between the masts. This is the case on Stagsegelschonern, in addition to the aftermost mast usually use on all masts only staysail, also on Rahseglern, the staysail can also set the square sails, and finally to other savers who drive a fishing man - staysail between the mastheads can.