10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GAFFSAIL»
Discover the use of
gaffsail in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
gaffsail and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Sailing to the Far Horizon: The Restless Journey and Tragic ...
... Fore gaff topsail Fore gaffsail Main gaff topsail Main topmast Main gaffsail
Mainmast Topsides Cap rail Ratlines Baggywrinkles Mizzen gaff topsail Mizzen
topmast Mizzen gaffsail Mizzenmast Mizzen gaff Mizzen boom Stern Taffrail
Davits.
Pamela Sisman Bitterman,
2012
2
Dutch shipbuilding before 1800: ships and guilds
By the late seventeenth century a type was in use which carried a main gaffsail, a
square topsail, forestaysail, a jib and oddly enough a lateen mizzen. English
hoys, coal carriers, had such a rig but without the lateen mizzen. At the same time
, ...
3
The Steam Engine: Its Invention and Progressive Improvement, ...
684-86 X 108-0: 73964-88 50-4 34516-94 Fore gaffsail....................... 2136'72 X
40'8: 87178-17 26'6 56836-75 Main gaff sail.. ................. .. 2303-62 X 47'0:
108273-14 53-2 122552-58 Main gaff topsail ............ 11072 X 98-0: 108-5056 47'
6 ...
4
Hunt's Yachting Magazine
... enormous " sprit" or yard, in lieu of boom and gaff ; and the mast is stepped in a
tabernacle, so that it can be lowered on the deck when passing under bridges.
The topsail and gaffsail barges differ from the stumps in being fitted with topmasts
...
5
The boy's manual of seamanship and gunnery
... Fore topsails 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 Fore topgallantsails 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 Fore royal 1 1 1 1 ..
. 1 Fore trysail ... 1 *.. 1 1 S Fore gaffsail 1 1 2 1 2 Main course or squaresail 2 2 2
1 1 Main topsails 2 2 2 2 1 Main topgallantsails 2 2 2 2 1 Main royals 1 1 1 1 .
6
Windship Technology: Proceedings of the International ...
As a guideline for component dimensions a basic module was defined consisting
of one cargo hold, one hatch, one mast with one gaffsail and loading gear. The
key dimension is the mast spacing which is not only determining (via proper ...
7
United States Naval Institute Proceedings
The writer thinks that the Shintoku Maru should be called a "divided gaffsail 4-
mast barkentine," as she possesses the square- rigged foremast, peculiar to the
barkentine rig, with four masts and divided gaffsails. Both sails are then gaffsails.
The change which, during the eighteenth century, came over the lateen- sail on
the mizen-mast of a ship, and its evolution into a gaffsail has been already
referred to, but development did not stop there, for it became common to hoist a
sail ...
Geoffrey Swinford Laird Clowes,
1936
9
Ships and Shipping in the North Sea and Atlantic, 1400-1800
The spritsail was replaced by a gaffsail which was simpler to handle and equally
effective on either tack since there was no big sprit running a 45° angle from the
foot to the top of the sail as with the spritsail. It was still possible with a gaffsail to ...
It is no easy matter to tack a square-rigged ship, so we put a gaffsail on the jury
mast. Tacking means sailing as close to the wind as possible, and one always
wishes to sail a little closer. Another point, half a point. I prayed for both of those.