Gaff Topsails information

families. The Topsails takes its name from the surrounding landscape which includes Main Topsail, Mizzen Topsail, Gaff Topsail and Fore Topsail which are...

On a gaff-rigged sailing boat, topsails may take a few different forms: A jib-headed topsail is generally a triangular sail set between the gaff and the...

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...

taken down. Bluenose was one such example. Topsail schooner/Square topsail schooner: includes square topsails. A version with raked masts and known for...

foremost main. Traditional topsail schooners have topmasts allowing triangular topsails sails to be flown above their gaff sails; many modern schooners...

Gunter-rigged sloop Gaff-rigged sloop with a headsail and a gaff topsail Spritsail sloop Sloop sail with multiple foresails and topsail Mast aft rig, a single...

Drumheller, Alberta Walsh, Alberta, see Medicine Hat, Alberta Main Topsail Hill, near Gaff Topsails, Newfoundland and Labrador Arches, St. Anthony, Newfoundland...

square-rigged foremast and at least two sails on the main mast: a square topsail and a gaff sail mainsail (behind the mast). The main mast is the second and taller...

Historical fore-and-aft rigs used a four-sided gaff rigged mainsail, sometimes setting a gaff topsail above it. Whereas once the mainsail was typically...

route itself was diverted inland up the Exploits valley and over the Gaff Topsails (some of the highest elevation terrain on the island) and away from...

Lake and Millertown Junction. The route then passes through Quarry, Gaff Topsails, Kittys Brook, and Howley, where it crosses the Main Brook and ends...

"Sheila Mageila Michelet", while "Sheila nGira" in Patrick Kavanagh's Gaff Topsails (1996) draws deeper on the legend. Fleischman, Aloys (5 December 2016)...

(Catalan Pailebot/schooner, 1919) Samuel P. Ely Speranța, 2-masted gaff, square topsails HMS Sultana (1768) USRC Taney (1833) Tho Pa Ga Thomas W. Lawson...

original cutter with topsails but it is a sail plan designed by Milne in 1918. It consists of a single jib, higher gaff with no topsail. While a spinnaker...

staysail is still in place. She has now five staysails, three gaff topsails, six jibs, three gaff sails, four square sails, 21 all in all. Her first voyage...

trysail (also known as a spencer[citation needed]) is a small triangular or gaff rigged sail hoisted in place of a larger mainsail when winds are very high...

A gaff vang is a line on a gaff rig sailboat used to exert lateral force on the gaff and thus control the shape of the sail. Rarely used now they are commonly...

hal) the yard when setting the sail. A gaff rigged sail has two; a throat halyard to lift the end of the gaff nearer the mast, and a peak halyard to lift...

between other masts are similarly named. The mizzen sail (or "spanker") is a gaff-rigged, fore-and-aft sail, mounted on the after side of the mizzenmast. It...

fishing in the waters of Falmouth, Cornwall. Falmouth working boats have a gaff cutter rig and a long keel hull. As well as being general purpose fishing...

immediately above the topsail or topsails. It is also known as a gallant or garrant sail. Later full-rigged ships split the topsail (and often the topgallant...