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- Gaff Topsail is an abandoned railway settlement located in the interior of Newfoundland, Canada, between the communities of Millertown Junction to the...
- of the mast or topmast. A gaff-rigged vessel might have a gaff topsail above any or all of its gaff sails. A yard topsail is similar, but set on a yard...
- gaff mainsail, and, above that, a main gaff topsail Gaff rigged Cutter Partridge 1885. A near-vertical gaff allows this Gunter-rigged boat to carry a triangular...
- one may adopt (i) a gaff sail on the foremast (even with a Bermuda mainsail), or (ii) a main staysail, often with a fisherman topsail to fill the gap at...
- square-rigged sails including a crossjack, topsail, save-all topsail, and top gallant sail, as well as a gaff-rigged topsail on the main mast and a jib and flying...
- 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...
- (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...
- foremost main. Traditional topsail schooners have topmasts allowing triangular topsails sails to be flown above their gaff sails; many modern schooners...
- 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...
- 2675 Tolkien, an asteroid named after J. R. R. Tolkien J.R. Tolkien, a gaff-topsail schooner of Netherlands registry Tolkien (crater), a crater on Mercury...