gaff rigs造句

• This yacht has the gaff rig and leeboards of the period.
• It was square rigged on the main mast, with a gaff rig on the mizzen.
• With a large gaff rig, a hinged centerboard, and wide shallow gaff carry a mainsail.
• Bermuda sloops were found with gaff rig, mixtures of gaff and square rig, or a Bermuda rig.
• A gaff rig typically carries 25 percent more sail than an equivalent bermudian rig for a given hull design.
• It is said to be the ancestor from which the common gaff rig evolved in 16th-century Holland.
• Initially gaff rigs were the norm, but as the class entered the 1930s Punt owners adopted Bermuda rigs.
• It currently states its aim as'to encourage interest in gaff rig, lug and spritsail rigs '.
• Most modern ketches are Bermuda rigged, but other possible rigs on a ketch include gunter rigs and gaff rigs.
• For a given sail area a gaff rig has a shorter mast than a stalling if oversheeted than something taller and narrower.
• The large mainsails differ from western style gaff rigs though, as they often do not have a crane in the harbour.
• The increased prevalence of fractional rigs on sloops in the early 20th century probably coincided roughly with the disappearance of the gaff rig.
• Work to up-rate the 12-oar launch to a gaff rig sailing launch, or cutter, is now complete.
• After she was damaged in the New England Hurricane of 1938, she was rerigged from a gaff rig to a Marconi rig.
• Most modern designs have only one sail, the mainsail; however, the traditional catboat could carry multiple sails from the gaff rig.
• A design with Bermuda rig was also favoured, although the majority of Bermuda sloops historically built probably were fitted with a gaff rig.
• The Bermuda rig had traditionally been used on vessels with two or more masts, with the gaff rig favoured for single-masted vessels.
• But this rig fell from favour to fore-and-aft gaff rigs and bermuda rigs after the development of steam power and new materials.
• Its original form had gaff rig, but evolved to use what is now known as Bermuda rig, making it the basis of nearly all modern sailing yachts.
• Three main types were developed over its life, all featuring the distinctive gaff rig with a single, high-peaked sail and the mast stepped well forward.