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Shtsimanski pointed out that sloops were rigged by a mast with a topmast. However, it was not a strict rule and often the mast and the topmast were joined together by iron hoops without top cross-trees and a top cap. By their rigging sloops differed from each other. There were sloops yards-rigged and sloops gaff-rigged.
A yards-rigged sloop mainly had a yacht-type rigging. Very often together with square sails it carried also the so-called 'breefore-sail'. The upper part of the gaff sail was wider than that the yacht's sail. The 'breefore-sail' was brought into use only by the end of the century. When in use it was rigged by a halyard, a stirrup, braces and footropes.
A gaff-rigged sloop. These ships did not carry square sails. There was a triangular gaff topsail above the gaff sail. Entertainment yachts were also often rigged as gaff-rigged sloops. Such a type of rigging first appeared in the last tenth of the 18th century. Not always gaff-rigged sloops carried a Jagerbaum (Germ.) as compared with yards-rigged sloops. At that time only a forestaysail and a flying jib were installed on the bowsprit. Large sloops, especially yards-riggers, had also inner jib and the forestaysail was flying. The main trysail of the sloop sometimes had a 'balance-reef', which went diagonally from the upper tack corner of the sail to the upper reef band. At some places reef-bands had no reef ropes.
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