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    A few years back I had an extra sloop floating around and decided to make something. I had all the brigs and schooners that I wanted, so I chose to make a brigantine.

    In my original attempt, I gave her a fore and aft gaff mainsail with no squares on the mast. To fill the gap between the fore and the main, I stuck in a small gaff sail on the back of the forecourse mast.

    Further research indicated that nobody made brigantines that way, and it bugged me. I decided to correct my mistake a few days ago. Here's the finished result:

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    The brigantine Henrietta

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    And a very nice converted conversion too Dobbs.
    Must try one of those for my US Squadron before we get stuck into the Med again in the Spring.
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    Yep, that looks like a brigantine!

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    Here's a link to what she looked like before this latest conversion. The original version is in the lower left corner.

    https://www.sailsofglory.org/attachm...0&d=1521586085

    Incidentally, I just tallied them and I have 14 sloops and only 3 are unmodified Swan class ship-sloops!

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