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	Gaff Rigs
		Vangs died out sometime in the 1800s and are all but unknown to yachties but in old paintings and drawings vangs are used all the time on spritsail rigs and gaff rigs; the vang controls the end of the gaff and helps prevent sagging in going to windward.
		The 30-foot gaff of the Norfolk wherry, which has to be cleared away and got up again when the mast is lowered for shooting bridges, is hoisted with a single halyard; so is the smaller gaff of the whaleboat used in the Azores.
		With a single-part mast-rope I could pull the gaff flat amidships when a yachtsman's gale was blowing, and a single whip on the clew was ample for the lower sheet.
	www.friend.ly.net /~dadadata/boat/cob/COB_sea-boat.html (1039 words)

	Gaff sails
		In the 19th century boomless gaff sails replaced staysails between the masts in the Royal Navy and were known as trysails.
		The throat halyard served to hoist the gaff.
		An upper block was suspended from the crosstrees, a lower one on a ring bolt in the gaff jaws.
	www.all-model.com /wolfram/PAGE102.html (438 words)

	Gaff sails
		One century later it became common to carry smaller gaff sails on the main and foremasts, as well as the large gaff sail on the mizen mast.
		The cloths of the gaff sails ran parallel to the leech -as is the case with all fore-and-aft sails.
		The gaff sail was bent to the gaff with robands but there was a large number of different systems for attaching it to the mast.
	www.all-model.com /wolfram/PAGE43.html (344 words)

	Prince de Neufchâtel
		Our ship is armed with 16 18lb carronades and two 6lb cannon, has three square sails, a driver (supplied as a double reefed version as well) a topmast gaff sail, a fore gaff sail, and three jibs.
		She has two sail servos (one, a sail winch, for the fore and aft sails, one for the square) and one rudder servo.
		For the person who wants to make their own masts, spars, rigging, sails and deck fittings yet retain the choice of having the ship be a working model.
	www.modelsailingships.com /ships/prince.html (423 words)

	Sail Ship Sails
		Modern sails are designed such that the warp and the weft of the sailcloth are oriented parallel to the luff and foot of the sail.
		In modern times a sail is cut of the extreme size which is capable of being carried in fine weather, and when the wind increases in strength it is reefed -- part is gathered up and fastened by reef points, small cords attached to the sail.
		Outboard of the square sails might be set studdingsails [studding sail, studsail, stun's'l) -- a sail on a special spar, extended outboard of a square sail or sails, for added sail area in moderate winds.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ship/sail-sails.htm (1720 words)

	Gaff rig - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gaff rig is a sailing rig (configuration of sails) in which a sail is a four-cornered fore-and-aft rigged item controlled at its peak and, usually, its entire head by a spar (pole) called the gaff.
		The gaff enables a fore and aft sail to be four sided, rather than triangular, and creates an, up to, doubling of the sail area that can be carried by that mast and boom (if a boom is used in the particular rig).
		Gaff rig remains the most popular rig for schooner and barquentine mainsails and other course sails, and spanker sails on a square rigged vessel are always gaff rigged.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gaff_rig (363 words)

	SAILING AND SEAMANSHIP
		They might have 2 or 3 dozen sails and literally hundreds of lines to control them; every one of which had its own name and special place in the pin rail where they were made fast.
		Gaff sails are secured to the mast either by hoops that encircle the mast and are fastened to the luff of the sail, or by a lacing; a line passed around the mast and through the grommets in the luff of the sail.
		When this occurs, the wind gets in front of the mainsail instead of behind it where it ought to be and blows the sail, gaff, and boom over to the opposite side of the boat with impressive speed and a dreadful crash.
	www.troop609.indianhead.org /highadventure/sailandseaman (11800 words)

	The Gaff Rig Detail Pages - The Main Sail (Site not responding. Last check: )
		To recap that information, the luff is that vertical portion of the sail that is nearest the mast, and the leech is the vertical portion farthest away from the mast.
		With a topsail, he recommends easing the gaff to an angle of 42 degrees to the mast, and I would think allowances would have to be made to the leech to accommodate this.
		As Earl explained, "A sprit sail is similar in shape to a gaff sail but is held aloft with a sprit which runs diagonally from a point about midway up the mast to the tallest point of the sail.
	users2.ev1.net /~fshagan/gaffmain.htm (1724 words)

	sail types
		It was tightened to the aft with a diagonal spar.
		The gaff sail is set with a peak halliard (the zigzag line between the gaff and the mast on the left stamp) and a throat halliard.
		A trapezoid sail is a square sail with two parallel edges of different length (as with the Philippine boat depicted on the stamp to the left).
	www.shipsonstamps.org /Topics/html/segel.htm (1927 words)

	Harjoittelu
		Sam Hartikainen, the sail is trimmed in weak winds by tightening it relatively tight from the boom end and by leaving it quite loose at the gaff end.
		This allows the sail to twist from the upper part (the up most batten is parallel to the boom) so that the wind exiting from the sail won't heel the canoe too much.
		Sailed a circle on the bay and observed the canoe.
	www.canoesailing.fi /html/exercise.html (6747 words)

	Sail-plan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In all sail plans, the architect attempts to balance the force of the sails against the drag of the underwater keel in such a way that the vessel naturally points into the wind.
		However, due to the gaff on the top edge of the sail the center of effort is typically lower, somewhat reducing the angle of heel (leaning of the boat caused by wind force on the sails) compared to a similar sized Bermuda rigged sail.
		On many warships, sails above the fighting top (a platform just above the lowest sail on which snipers were positioned) were mounted on separate masts ("topmasts" or "topgallant masts") held in wooden sockets called "tabernacles." These masts and their stays could be rigged or struck as the weather and tactical situation demanded.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sail-plan (2530 words)

	Wildwood Sailing Club - Recognizing Boat Types
		The gaff sail itself is slightly more effective offwind than the Bermudan as it presents a flatter area to the breeze and, in addition, the gaff can be fitted with a vang to reduce twist.
		If a sloop's sails are too large for the crew to change or reef under storm conditions, then you have no safety and would be better off with a divided rig with its smaller sails and greater ease of handling.
		The ketch has her mizzen forward of the rudderpost, and the sail area is comparatively larger than that of the yawl's mizzen, up to 20 percent or more of the total.
	home.golden.net /~capone1/wsc/boattype.htm (2745 words)

	Optimist rig/sails - Sailing Anarchy Forums
		My 6 year old loves her opti and the gaff rig sail won't overpower the boat so I don't have to worry about plucking the kids out of the water when they flip over.
		The new sail has to be of woven cloth and fit on the existing spars too, so I don't think it will be that much of a radical departure from the present.
		I also had a mark 4 sail before the mark 5 and I think all they changed from that was the material of construction.
	www.sailinganarchy.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=16174 (1486 words)

	A Guideboat Sail Rig
		Those are for the screws that hold the mast step in place and will be directly underneath the front seat of the boat when the rig is removed.
		Since the weather continued to be clear with virtually no wind all week I set about creating a new sail that could take advantage of the situation.
		Those cleats are homemade brass and walnut and are the most useful things for cleating off the gaff and main halyards I've come up with to date.
	home1.gte.net /rmillet/Sailing.html (740 words)

	Gaff sail (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A gaff sail is a fore-and-aft sail with four corners and four edges.
		Schooners are usually rigged with gaff sails, and most square rigged vessels have a gaff sail on their aft mast called the spanker.
		Above the gaff is often rigged a triangular sail called a gaff topsail.
	sailing-ships.oktett.net /gaff-sail.html (133 words)

	Schooner sail plan - boomless foresail - Boat Design Forums
		Gaff rigs are a great play ground and a well design gaff schooner rig can be a lot of fun to handle.
		The line would work as a traveler, so the luff and most of the sail would begin working as soon as the tack was complete, sometimes they would fully sheet the sail, sometimes not bother, depending on the time to the next tack.
		This is not sunk in concrete but more standard proportions for sail area on a schooner are about 50% for the main, 20% for the fore, 10% for the staysail, 10% for the jib and the last 10 for topsails.
	www.boatdesign.net /forums/showthread.php?p=110834#post110834 (1705 words)

	A Guideboat Sail Rig
		Those are for the screws that hold the mast step in place and will be directly underneath the front seat of the boat when the rig is removed.
		Since the weather continued to be clear with virtually no wind all week I set about creating a new sail that could take advantage of the situation.
		Those cleats are homemade brass and walnut and are the most useful things for cleating off the gaff and main halyards I've come up with to date.
	mysite.verizon.net /rmillet/Sailing.html (740 words)

	gaff sail
		Skill and dedication are required to master the gaff's power and versatility, and patience is needed in setting and storing the sail.
		For these reasons, and because of its low profile, the gaff is often seen on heavier seagoing craft where steady breezes and long trips bring out the best in the rig.
		V-Darts are placed at critical points along the edges and in the corners of the sail to help create simulated broadseams.
	members.aol.com /polysail/HTML/gaff.htm (151 words)

	Search Results for "Gaff"
		To hook or land (a fish) using a gaff.
		...A sliding loop of rope or chain by which a running yard or gaff is connected to, while still being able to move vertically along, the mast.
		A stay for racing or cruising vessels used to steady the mast against the strain of the gaff.
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col61&query=Gaff (324 words)

	Gaff Sail
		Use the dimensions from your sail plan to determine the placement of the four corners on the polytarp.
		(at some point, you might want to stitch all these reinforcing pieces to the body of the sail.) Place grommets in the middle of each of the diamonds and at the reef tack and clew.
		To reef the sail, loosen the main halyard, fold the extra sail material down to the boom, and knot the reef lines snugly under the boom.
	hometown.aol.com /oldboatcds/gaffsail.htm (206 words)

	Dave Wheatley Gaff Rig
		Fishing smacks of the early seventeenth century set a fore and aft sail upon a spar that was known as a half-sprit.
		The single halyard, used to hoist the very long and low peaked gaff, was fitted in such a manner that the first effect of letting go was for the peak to drop, then the gaff came down almost horizontal.
		Up until the 1920's and 30's gaff had been the universal rig, then came what was to be almost a death blow: the leg of mutton sail, or Bermuda rig.
	www.wheatley.myhome.org.uk /dwhome/gaff.htm (2320 words)

	Seamanship - SWS Sailing Manual
		Sailing with the wind at a right angle to the boat is termed "reaching" and should probably be the first kind of sailing practiced by the new skipper.
		Scandalizing is accomplished by lowering the peak of the gaff down against or close to the mast, effectively folding the sail in two and reducing the sail area by about 50%.
		Sailing becomes extremely difficult and labored, especially to windward, and it is time to make way with haste to the nearest protected area.
	www.shallowwatersailor.us /swsmanual/seamanship (11385 words)

	The Gaff Rig Pages - Gaff Rig Overview (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The shorter side of the sail, along the mast, is the luff, and working counter-clockwise, we find the head at the top, the leech along the longer side and then the foot at the bottom.
		The sail is supported at the head by the gaff (with lacing), and is laced to the boom along its length as in "A", or has its clew, the lower left corner of the sail in these illustrations, attached to the end of the boom as in "B."
		or "ropes" that control raising and lowering the sail, are the peak halyard and the throat halyard.
	users2.ev1.net /~fshagan/gaffover.htm (341 words)

	What's The Ideal Sailing Rig?
		Aspect Ratio is defined as the height of the sail squared, divided by the area of the sail.
		The salient point is that extremely high aspect sails are not "bad" sails, they are just not a requirement for general ocean cruising, where it is rare to be sailing dead to windward.
		The sail area given to Redpath is able to be generous because it is located relatively low down, rather than on one single tall stick.
	www.kastenmarine.com /gaff_rig.htm (4735 words)

	Good Old Boat: The fore-and-aft rig by Ted Brewer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The racing sailor and the average yachtsman stay with the Bermudan rig, while the gaff is favored by a few diehards and is used, of course, for character boats and replicas.
		The gaff sail itself is slightly more effective offwindthan the Bermudan as it presents a flatter area to the breeze and, in addition, the gaff can be fitted with a vang to reduce twist.
		Both the ketch and yawl can be balanced under a wide variety of reduced sail combinations in a blow and, to many cruising skippers, thishandiness more than offsets the loss of a fraction of a knot to windward.
	www.boatus.com /goodoldboat/foreaftrig.htm (2377 words)

	How to Sail Gaff part 2
		When sailing in light airs the peak halyard can be eased slightly to increase the curvature of the mainsail and thereby its ability to hold the wind.
		All sailing boats are limited by the foresail and the tension in the foresail luff.
		Never lower the gaff less than 15 degrees above the horizontal as this could result in damage to the gaff jaws from the securing rope.
	www.norfolk-gypsy.com /how_to_sail2.htm (414 words)

	gaff
		a spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail
		to hook or land (a fish) with a gaff.
		All the gaff he took never made him bitter.
	www.factmonster.com /ipd/A0452312.html (93 words)

	The Com-Pac Picnic Cat Sailboat from Com-Pac Yachts - Gulf Island Sails
		The Picnic Cat is from the drawing board of Clark Mills, designer of the Com-Pac 16 CB, the Com-Pac Sun Cat, and the Com-Pac 23/3, and well known also as the designer of the Optimist Pram and the Windmill One Design.
		Kickup rudder with laminated mahogany and ash tiller
		Setup and retrieval are effortless - a matter of less than 5 minutes -- because gaff, boom, sail and hinged mast remain on the boat while trailering, as do the shrouds.
	www.gisails.com /boats/compac/picnic (499 words)

	Sailmakers - Dabbler Sails - Sail Lofts - Sails for small boats - Sail Makers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The little gaff main and jib we are making here were lofted on the floor (max width 12’, total length 42’), but in fact we do not loft most sails like that -- too undignified to crawl around on all fours.
		With the sail in this tidy condition, launching, beaching, and rowing in a calm are made easier than with a lugs’l, or any boomed sail.
		Both sails are self-tending and self-vanging, thanks to the main's sprit boom and the balanced pivot point of the clubbed jib -- common and practical arrangements when business on the Chesapeake Bay was conducted under sail.
	www.dabblersails.com /news/blosxom.pl (1125 words)

	SailBoatStuff Marine Parts & Supplies - Glossary R - T
		when the boat is sailing downwind, the runner on the leeward side of the mainsail must be released so as not to interfere with the sail.
		short pieces of yarn, ribbon, thread, or tape attached to the sail which are used to show the air flow over the sail; or when attached to the shroud indicate apparent wind direction.
		to adjunct angle of the sails to accord with the wind.
	www.sailboatstuff.com /glos_r_t.html (2323 words)

	Duckworks Boatbuilders Supply
		If the mast bends aft, as it will in strong winds, the gaff sags off, the sails leach bellies out and she is no longer close winded.
		The sail rig absorbs about half the cost and labor of almost any sailing project, large or small.
		Her sail area is modest and she is handy in a good breeze.
	www.duckworksbbs.com /plans/jim/moby_dink/index.htm (539 words)

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