gaff sail

The gaff sail could be raised as the topsail above the spanker.

Some also carry a topsail above the uppermost or only spanker, called the gaff sail.

She had a 20-foot mast stepped on one of the crossbeams connecting the hulls, with a single gaff sail.

A fore-and-aft topsail may be carried above the upper or only spanker, and is called the gaff sail.

Then there are the fore-and-aft rigged gaff sails such as a main gaff topsail.

A gaff-rigged vessel might have a gaff topsail above any or all of its gaff sails.

Drop-in timber masts carry gaff sails, a self tending jib and a large and powerful staysail.

She has now five staysails, three topsails, six jibbs, three course gaff sails, four square sails, 21 all in all.

The propulsion system was composed of two-cylinder motor Tuxham of 64-76 hp and ketch rigged gaff sails.

Then there was a flash of white off to leeward, and he saw the gaff sail of the second pinnace ahead the crew waving wildly to gain his attention.

Instead, the lowest sail on the mizzen was usually a fore/aft sail-originally a lateen sail, but later a gaff sail called a spanker or driver.

Traditional topsail schooners have topmasts allowing triangular topsails sails to be flown above their gaff sails; many modern schooners are Bermuda rigged.

The extra sails and ease of the gaff sails make the rig easier to operate, though not necessarily faster, than a sloop on all points of sail other than up-wind.

The sliding gunter yard stays essentially vertical while being raised, while the folding gunter is 'hinged' up to the mast from the horizontal, much like a high-peaked gaff sail.

The typical couta boat carried a gaff sail and jib set out on a long bowsprit, although the main sail developed into more of a gunter sail, as it had a very high peaked gaff or yard.

Unusual for its heavily raked masts, it carries two large gaff sails (one on a boom and one loose-footed), a main gaff topsail, several headsails, and a square topsail and flying topgallant on the foremast.

Fore-and-aft rigged sails include staysails, Bermuda rigged sails, gaff rigged sails, gaff sails, gunter rig, lateen sails, lugsails, the spanker sail on a square rig and crab claw sails.

During this time she was rigged with bowsprit, jib-boom, foremast, mainmast and mizzenmast, all three masts fitted with topmasts and gaffs for the gaff sails and the fore topmast fitted with three yards for the topsails.

Going to windward was not the strong point of those junk rigged vessels, since the junk rig performs less efficiently to windward as the modern Bermuda sail or the Gaff sail and the hulls of the cargo freighters were well rounded and offered little lateral resistance.

The sails were four headsails, three gaff sails and three gaff topsails (one on each mast), upper and lower square topsails on the foremast, a staysail between the fore and main masts and another staysail between the main and mizzen masts.

By the first half of the 18th century the word had evolved to refer not to a kind of vessel, but rather to a particular type of rigging: two-masted, with her foremast fully square-rigged and her mainmast rigged with both a fore-and-aft mainsail (a gaff sail) and square topsails and possibly topgallant sails.