Schooner Trinovante Sail Plan

The following sail plans show how the schooner Trinovante might reduce sail as the wind increases.
Depending on wind direction and sea conditions various sail combinations will be used. Factors to be taken into consideration include,  the general trend of the wind – is it  increasing or decreasing, the abilities of the crew, if it’s day or night, the sea state, whether we’ve just made a cup of tea and how quickly we want to get to our destination. There are no hard and fast rules. In practice, unless we are racing in the Tall Ships Race, we don’t tend to do a lot of reefing, we just drop whole sails.
You can see more of how this rig works in the Learn To Sail A Schooner Articles by John, the skipper of Trinovante.