--- In amelyachtowners@yahoogroups.com, "sy melmar y" <newsgroup@...>
wrote:

hello
could anyone please tell me if originally the two masts were
interconectet by a "top stay"?

I was under the impression that this is called a "triatic stay" but
when I looked it up in a dictionary a triatic connected the main mast
and the fore mast. Does anyone know the correct term for a stay
connecting the main mast and the mizzen mast?

Peter Weston

Former owner of Amelia Pearl now Moon Dog (SM 248)