page_title: Spritsail
section_title: Local boats
hierarchical_section_title: Spritsail / Local boats
caption_attribution_description: English: A boat sailing up the Padma River near the Ferry crossing between Dhaka &amp; Khulna in Bangladesh.
context_page_description: The spritsail is a four-sided, fore-and-aft sail that is supported at its highest points by the mast and a diagonally running spar known as the sprit. The foot of the sail can be stretched by a boom or held loose-footed just by its sheets. A spritsail has four corners: the throat, peak, clew, and tack. The
  Spritsail can also be used to describe a rig that uses a spritsail.
  Historically, spritsails were the first European fore-and-aft rigs, appearing in Greco-Roman navigation in the 2nd century BC.
context_section_description: The spritsail is also commonly used in a fore-and-aft rig (along with a staysail) on local traditional wooden boats of the west coast of Norway, most notably the faering variant of the Oselvar. Traditionally, up until the second half of the 1800s, these boats used to be rigged with a square rig.
caption: Boat on Padma River, Bangladesh
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