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Thank you JohnMGD.
Indeed, when building sailing ships, I am more fascinated with engineering / technical solutions than with historical issues.
But now I read what I wrote and I see at least two errors :-) The first is not very important, but instead of "jiboom" it should probably be "jibboom". The second one is in the sentence "(...) The advantage of course was the very fast service of the boom, (...)" of course it is not about some "boom (?)", but about a sail called "flying jib". Then it makes sense that "(...) The advantage was the fast handling of flying jib (...)"
And there is a "fopmast" instead of "topmast":-))
Greetings
Tomek
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