Jager (sail)
A hunter is the foremost foresail on some sailing ships (i.e. the foremost of the sails that are set in front of the mast on single-masted boats or ships or in front of the foremost mast on ships with several masts).
A hunter is driven on sailing ships with several foresails, e.g. B. on the Bark Gorch Fock or the Ketsch Seute Deern . There it is driven as the largest headsail before the outer jib ( otherwise the foresail on tall ships). On some full ships , a hunter or an outer jib can be placed in front of a jib or an inner jib and a large jib, whereby the large jib then lives up to its name and offers more sail area than the hunter.
On some small historical sailing ships, for example on Kuffen (18th to 19th centuries) or Schmacken (16th to 19th centuries), a hunter was used instead of the outer jib. As Jager tree was here Tree of Jagers called - a round rod, the lower edge held the Jagers in the wind.
Individual evidence
- ^ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition from 1888–1890.