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for small craft. The helmsman can reduce weather helm significantly, simply by sheeting out the mainsail. Sheeting out may appear to create an inefficient belly in the sail, but it is often a pragmatic alternative to having a heavy helm. A swing keel lifted halfway is the perfect treatment for
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tension. Small craft attach the peak halyard to the gaff with a wire span with eyes at both ends looped around the gaff and held in place with small wooden chocks, larger craft have more than one span. Peak halyards pull upwards, approaching the gaff at right
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has regularly hosted a Gaffers Day for any classic sailing boat that can "hoist a spar". Up to 90 vessels from around Australia take part in sailing on Sydney Harbour in a practical demonstration of the skills and technology used in the nautical past.
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boats are similar, smaller vessels on which a spar (commonly, but incorrectly called the gaff) is raised until it is nearly vertical, parallel to the mast and close adjacent to it. Topsails are never carried on gunter rigs.
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sail, which, in addition to being simpler than the gaff rig, usually allows vessels to sail closer to the direction from which the wind is blowing (i.e. "closer to the wind").
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weather helm on a gaffer. The usual adjustments to mast rake, or even bowsprit length may be made to a gaffer with persistent heavy weather (or lee) helm.
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hoists the throat of the sail (the end closer to the mast) at the forward end of the gaff and bears the main weight of the sail and the tension of the
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The gaff enables a fore-and-aft sail to be four sided, rather than triangular. A gaff rig typically carries 25 percent more sail than an equivalent
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may be fitted. It is a line attached to the end of the gaff which prevents the gaff from sagging downwind. Gaff vangs are difficult to rig on the
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with a gaff rig, the CE of the mainsail may actually be overboard of the hull, in a stiff wind the craft may want to
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Gaff sail - ①Mast ②Gaff ③Peak ④Throat ⑤Boom ⑥Clew ⑦Tack ⑧Saddle ⑨Parrel ⑩Sall ⑪Bridle ⑫Peak Halyard ⑬Throat Halyard
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ratio, it is difficult to set enough sail area in the Bermudan rig without a mast of excessive height and a
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On a gaff-rigged vessel, any heading where the wind is within 20 degrees of dead aft is considered a
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The Illustrated Dictionary of Boating Terms: 2,000 Essential Terms for Sailors & Powerboaters
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but bisects the face of the sail, with the after end of the sprit attaching to the
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won the 1907 Lipton's Cup, despite a broken foretopmast (pictured)
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The Gaff Rig Handbook: History, Design, Techniques, Developments
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vessel are always gaff rigged. On other rigs, particularly the
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with this configuration. In light winds, or when racing, a
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For a given sail area a gaff rig has a shorter mast than a
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rig (configuration of sails, mast and stays) in which the
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hangs from a spar along its edge, this rig supports the
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Her sails, from left to right, are: 1741: 902: 294:Sailing characteristics (small craft) 24: 871: 130:Gaff rig remains the most popular 25: 3067: 465:A near-vertical gaff allows this 262:is another rig with a four-sided 96:rather than permanent backstays. 627: 615: 599: 583: 571: 551: 534: 514: 496: 477: 458: 442: 427: 398: 322:, the gaff rig is less prone to 266:. Unlike the gaff rig where the 946:including limited use, outdated 853: 578:Traditional Dutch sailing barge 739: 713: 705:Philips-Birt, Douglas (1954). 698: 673: 378: 125: 13: 1: 666: 2959:Bristol Channel pilot cutter 546:, National Historic Landmark 7: 639: 489:Johannes Christiaan Schotel 385:Sydney Amateur Sailing Club 173:The gaff is hoisted by two 37:, a competitor in the 1903 10: 3072: 878:Rousmaniere, John (1998). 707:Rigs and Rigging of Yachts 391: 3022: 2951: 2905: 2839: 2723: 2703: 2630: 2539: 2483: 2389: 2343: 2255: 2155: 2140: 1971: 1887: 1811: 1780: 1611: 1516: 1454: 1445: 1382: 1336: 1327: 1255: 1212:Spritsail (square-rigged) 1149: 1073: 1060: 1030: 964: 951: 944: 725:Google books Ngram Viewer 310:too high for the limited 221:The gaff-rigged schooner 103:for a given hull design. 80:and, usually, its entire 27:Sailing rig configuration 3051:Sailing rigs and rigging 2653:Iron-hulled sailing ship 592:VOC-Chamber of Rotterdam 330:Reaching with gaff sails 2462:Square-rigged caravel ( 453:, off Helsinki, Finland 351:Running with gaff sails 1111:Mainsail (Bermuda rig) 1081:Asymmetrical spinnaker 761:Leather, John (2001). 746:Cunliffe, Tom (1992). 226: 185: 58: 50: 42: 2994:Pinnace (ship's boat) 2356:Chinese treasure ship 1182:Mainsail (square rig) 405:Gaff rigged schooner 318:. 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Index

Gaff-rigged

Reliance
America's Cup


sailing
sail
fore-and-aft rigged
peak
head
spar
backstays
Bermuda rig
fore-aft rig
schooner
barquentine
course sails
spanker
square rigged
sloop
ketch
yawl
Bermuda rig
halyards

throat halyard
luff
peak halyard
leech

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