| Summary: | jackass n schooners ] were of special and local design, and so original in rig and suits of sail for the Ice, as to earn such quaint names as the 'Jack-Ass-Brigs' or the 'Beaver-Hat-Men'; and almost all of these craft were built by the handy sealers themselves 1961 _Evening Telegram_ 23 May p6 The type of two-masted craft on whose mainmast upper square sails would be fitted temporarily, to make a jackass brig, was the vessel that regularly was all square-rigged on the foremast and all fore-an-aft-rigged on the mainmast.They were numerous in the Newfoundland trade. 12/78 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Used I jackass brig; BEAVER1: BEAVER HAT MAN Checked by Cathy Wiseman on Fri 26 Jun 2015; source for first part of citation is 1933 GREENE 45-6; Found in DNE but no stamp
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