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right|thumb|Staysails
A staysail ("stays'l") is a fore-and-aft rigged sail whose luff can be affixed to a stay running forward (and most often but not always downwards) from a mast to the deck, the bowsprit, or to another mast.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “staysail” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.