Re: Tall ****ps Youth Trust is to sell one of its brigs

"Andy Champ" <no.way@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Wilbur Hubbard wrote:
>>
>> "Andy Champ" <no.way@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Wilbur Hubbard wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I hope not because a brigantine is a two-masted, square-rigged ****p 
>>>> with fore and aft mainsail. A 'brig' is a lubberly shortening of 
>>>> the word 'brigantine.'
>>>>
>>>> Wilbur Hubbard
>>>
>>> http://www.answers.com/brig&r=67
>>>
>>> Note that the first definition is from the *American* heritage 
>>> dictionary (so this is not your language being differnt!), and it 
>>> has a link to brigantine with the description of the different rig.
>>>
>>> Andy
>>
>> Wrong! Let me repeat. A brigantine is a two masted vessel, 
>> square-rigged but with fore and aft mainsail. 
>>
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/data/d0002703.html

>> http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/brigantine
>>
>> http://www.geocities.com/cjstein_2000/dictionary.html#B
>>
>> note: a gaff sail is a fore and aft sail.
>>
>> Wilbur Hubbard
>
> Perhaps my snipping is innacurate, or perhaps you are trolling (and 
> no, I am not referring to piscatorial activities) but it seems to me 
> that the three links you have given all have seperate definitions for 
> "Brig", and none of them suggest that it is merely "a lubberly 
> shortening of the word 'brigantine' ".
>
> This has little to do with whether the Trust is correct to sell its 
> vessel.
>
> Andy

I Googled some pics of the Trust's brigs (they are brigs according to 
definition because the pictures showed they are both square-rigged on 
both masts with no fore-and-aft sails on the masts) and they are nice 
looking boats. But, whose to say the Trust doesn't have good reason to 
sell whatever boats they want to sell

Wilbur Hubbard