BOSUN’S BAG
WHAT ABOUT THE GOLLYWOBBLER?
aff rig offers a feast of opportunities for creative sailors to cram on canvas, but, of all the options, two are akin to kicking in wind-powered turbochargers. If a schoonerman writes to say, ‘what about the gollywobbler?’ I’ll hold up my hands, but so long as we leave that monster of legend and mystery out, you can’t beat the jackyarder and the full-hoist jib topsail, or yankee. We’ve touched on jackyard topsails before in this column, so this month I’m concentrating on the mighty yankee and we’d better start by defining the
