• Taniwha420@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Hopefully someone saltier than I can reply, but I’m pretty sure this is a windjammer, which was a derogatory name. I believe steel construction - particularly of masts and lines, like stays - allowed ships to be much longer, and taller … and they were widely regarded as unaesthetic.

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      11 months ago

      Lmao, you show up with an extremely negative comment and then get surprised when your negativity gets responded to with negativity. Yep, must be reddit and lemmys fault!

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      11 months ago

      Somebody likes their sloop rig. Turn the tops’il into a gaff rig for extra “wanna fight bro”