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.
GAFF: The spar supporting the upper edge of an old fashioned type of fore and aft rigged, four-cornered mainsail. A vessel that uses such a sail is said to be ‘gaff-rigged’.
GALLEY: The kitchen area aboard a boat.
As with lacing to the boom or gaff, sails should not be laced too tight to the mast Ð particularly important when raising or lowering the sail.
gaff 1. A spar hoisted on the aft side of a mast to support the head of a sail, hence gaff-rigged; 2. A spar used to support and spread the head of a sail of four generally unequal sides. A sail so rigged is gaff-headed. 3.
Gaff: - a free-swinging spar attached to the top of the sail.
Gaff rigged Sloop
Gale--Force 8 on the Beaufort wind scale 34 to 40 knots of wind.
Galley: - The kitchen of a ship.
gaffA metal pole with a hooked end used to boat a fish. Also a pole or spar that holds the upper portion of a four-sided sail. galleyThe kitchen area on a boat.
Gaff vs. Bermudan
The gaff rig and the Bermudan are the two major rigs today. Each has its advantages, but truly they operate on different planes.
gaff
A spar that holds the top of a four sided gaff sail. A hooked pole for getting fish on board.
gaff rigged ...
gaff - 1 - A spar that holds the top of a four sided gaff sail. 2 - A pole with a hook at the end used to get a fish on board.
gale force winds - Wind speeds strong enough to qualify the storm as a gale.
Gaff: A spar holding the upper side [head] of a four-sided sail; a device used to baot a large fish.
Galley: The kitchen on a boat or ship.
Garboard Strake: The strake [plank] next to the keel.
Gaff rigged sloop - you won't see many of these today, but occasionally, you'll see maybe a custom built designed or built by someone with a more traditional opinion of how boats should be built.
GAFF: 1) The spar used to extend the head of a sail. 2) Affectionate term for a long-time charter customer as in "he's kind of an old gaffer, but he charters every year from Newport, so I guess we should send him a Christmas card." ...
Gaff
A spar or pole extending diagonally upward from the after side of a mast and supporting a fore-and-aft sail.
Gale
A storm with a wind speed between 34 and 40 knots.
Gaff
A spar in a gaff rig (four sided sails) to which the top side of the sailed is attached.
Give-way vessel ...
Gaff: A free-moving spar that is mounted to the top edge of a sail
Galley: The cooking facility on a boat; in larger yachts normally called kitchen
Gangway: The part of a ship or large yacht where passengers and crew board or disembark ...
GAFF : A spar to support the head of a gaff sail.
GAFF RIG : Four-sided mainsail defined by two booms, one located on the bottom, perpendicular to the mast, and another, located on top, at an angle from the mast.
Gaff The spar to which the head of a fore and aft sail is bent.
Galley The kitchen of a ship of any size.
Gallows Frame of wood or metal with rounded top for supporting the boom.
gaff topsail - The topsail set over a gaff sail, such as the topsail set over a cutter's mainsail. Sometimes the sail has a head yard, and sometimes not.
galley - The ships' kitchen. A long narrow rowing boat propelled by six or eight oars.
Gaff: A spar used in ships to extend the heads of fore-and-aft sails which are not set on stays.
Gangway: On deep waisted ships like the seventy-four, a narrow platform extending from the quarter-deck to the forecastle.
Gaff Topsail:
A light triangular or quadrilateral sail set over a gaff.
Gale:
An unusually strong wind. In storm:warning terminology, a wind of 34 to 47 knots (39 to 54 miles per hour or 62:87 kilometers per hour).
gaff: a spar used to support the top of a mainsail or a pole with a hook end used for hauling fish onboard a spar to support and spread the head of a sail of four generally unequal sides. A sail so rigged is gaff-headed.
gaff
1) The spar aloft on the traditional four-sided gaff rig. See rig. 2) A pole with a sharp hook used to retrieve fish from the water.
gale ...
Gaff - a free swinging spar attached to the top edge of a sail
Galley - The kitchen area of a boat.
Gangway - The area of a ships side where people board and disembark.
Garboard - Used in conjunction with strake.
Gaff - A handled hook used to boat a large fish.
Galley - The kitchen on a boat.
Gel coat - The standard finish of a fiberglass boat.
Gaff
Spar which supports the upper side of a fore-and-aft four-sided sail. Also, long-handled hook to bring fish aboard.
Gaff Rig ...
GAFF - A spar to support the head of a gaff sail.
GALLEY - The kitchen area of a boat.
GANGWAY - The area of a ship's side where people board and disembark.
gaff-topsail
gale
1. An unusually strong wind. 2. In storm-warning terminology, a wind of 28-47 knots (52-87 kilometers or 32-63 miles per hour). (back) ...
GAFF TOPSAIL HALYARD BEND
Pass two turns round the spar, then lead the end back round the standing part and underneath all the turns, bringing it round to its own part and back again over the two outer turns and underneath the inner turn.
Gaff: - a free-swinging spar attached to the top of the sail.
Galley: - The kitchen of a ship.
Gallows- A frame used to rest the boom when the sail is down.
Gang Plank - Board or ramp used as a walkway from ship to dock ...
Gaff: A spar that supports the head of a four sided fore-and-aft sail.
Gaff Topsail: A triangular sail set over a gaff.
Genoa: A large foresail or jib that overlaps the mainsail.
Give-Way: To yield the right of way to another boat.
GAFF A spar to which the top of a fore-and-aft sail is attached. It is usually fitted with a jaw at the mast end to clasp the mast.
Spanker- A gaff-headed sail attached to the mizzenmast.
Spinnaker- A large, light triangular sail used in light airs.
Spinnaker pole- A spar or pole used to hold the spinnaker away from the mast.
GAFF RIG See SAILBOAT RIGS. GARVEY HULL A hard chine hull in which the chines do not join on the stem centerline. (See PLAY PEN design) GARBOARD The plank adjoining the keel. Also called garboard strake.
Gaff - (1) A spar that holds the upper side of a four sided gaff sail. (2) A pole with a sharp hook at the end used to get a fish on board.
Gunter rig Similar to a gaff rig, except that the spar forming the "gaff" is hoisted to an almost vertical position, extending well above the mast.
Gunwale Most generally, the upper edge of the side of a boat.
I suppose for pure sailing performance you may want a finer bow for speed to weather, but with this simple, boomless gaff rig this boat is not designed to be an upwind rocket.
A small lug may be carried above the large one, and a gaff topsail added to the sails of a schooner. A small-masted fore-and-aft-rigged vessel may be a cutter (fig. 7) or sloop.
In the middle of the 17th century the gaff sail was developed from the spritsail. It was successfully employed on small sailing boats, cutters, schooners, sloops and on the jigger mast of great sailing ships - the barques and barquentines.
A triangular sail set above the gaff on a gaff rigged boat.
topsides
The sides of the hull above the waterline and below the deck.
Spar: A stout pole forming a ships mast, yard, gaff, boom, etc.
Starboard: The right hand side of a vessel facing forward.
Steerage:The lowest class accommodations on a passenger ship.
Traditional fore-and-aft rigs used a gaff to control the top of the mainsail, sometimes setting a topsail above it.
Local Guides ...
spar any ship's mast, boom, yard, or gaff
spirketting inside planking between ports and waterways of a ship
sponson platform jutting from ship's deck for gun or wheel ...
Lowest sail on mizzenmast; rigged somewhat fore and aft (between boom and gaff), rather than the general crossways arrangement of the rest of the sails.
Spar ...
Topping lift - A large, strong tackle employed to raise or top the end of a gaff, or of a boom. Holds up the boom when it is not being used. Also the line that controls the height of a spinnaker pole.
The mainmast is aft of a smaller foremast, and the sails are either jub-headed or gaff-headed. sloop: a sailboat with a single mast that is stepped not more than one third of the way aft from the bow. A sloop usually carries only one headsail.
The earlier days the brig was a vessel with two masts square-rigged like a ship's fore- and main-masts, but carrying also on her main-mast a lower fore-and-aft sail with a gaff and boom.
"Bermuda sloops" (not to be confused with the type of traditional Bermudian ship known as a Bermuda sloop), with a single foresail of the jib or genoa type and a single mainsail (one variation of the aforementioned Bermuda rig). Some are gaff rigged.
 See also: Boat, Sail, Sailing, Mast, Boom
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