Talk:Staysail

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This seems all wrong to me... at least, it may well be right in terms of common usage, but the actual definitions I learned and sailed by for years were:

A jib is a triangular sail that runs up a stay, typically the forestay on a small boat.

A staysail has its own stay built in, so the foot will be attached (eg to a point on the bowsprit or foredeck) and the head hoisted, without the benefit of an existing line.

Otherwise, they are equivalent sails; though, by implication, only a jib can be 'hanked on'!