Various rigs are seen on the Frances 26. The original was a fractional configuration with a small headsail, often a boomed self-tacker. Then there was a Bermudan cutter sporting a short bowsprit, and ...
"We had run into some very rough weather crossing the Mona Passage between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico and broke our new bowsprit. The ice in our box had melted, and we were doing the canned food ...