The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

Standing Gaff

Sea Terms

Gaffs kept throated and peaked aloft on which fore and aft sails are set by means of an out-haul, and furled by means of brails. These sails have no booms. (See Railways.)

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