Translation for 'gaff' from English to Russian

gaff

гафель {м}морс.

• Windeward Bound is rigged with four square sails, three headsails, three staysails between the masts, a gaff mainsail and gaff topsail, totalling 12 sails in all.
• The older and more common type is a quadrilateral sail set on spars which extend the gaff and boom of a gaff sail.
• An example of this is at the jaws of a gaff on a gaff rigged or gunter rigged craft.
• Compare this with gaff fishing.
• A "flying gaff" is a specialized type of gaff used for securing and controlling very large fish.

• In sailing, the throat halyard (or throat for short) is a line that raises the end of a gaff nearer to the mast, as opposed to the peak halyard which raises the end further from the mast.
• A sail rig which resembles a gaff rig, with the gaff nearly vertical, is called a Gunter rig, or "sliding gunter" from its resemblance to a Gunter's rule.
• Traditional canvas square and gaff-rigged sails have one or more rows of "reefing lines" that pass through the sail, which reach around the sail that has been gathered in to reduce its size and secure the remaining unreefed sail to the spar (square rig) or boom (gaff rig).
• The forward of the masts was a short foremast from which was hung forward-leaning gaff sail with no lower boom.
• Historical fore-and-aft rigs used a four-sided gaff rigged mainsail, sometimes setting a gaff topsail above it.

• The yoke (or jaw) of the gaff and the lacing of the gaff sail on a snow could move freely on the snow mast, unhindered by the iron bands that held together the (main) mast, nor limited by the main yard.
• An Itchen ferry is a type of small gaff rig cutter.
• He described the "Turner Model" of sailing rig, using the Bermudan sail, a "fore and aft sail without gaff, being a large triangular sail."
• The main and mizzen masts are gaff rigged, and both can carry a gaff-topsail.
• Another use of the gaff vangs was to steady the gaff on a boomless gaff rig like a bawley when the sail is brailed up.

• The large mainsails differ from western style gaff rigs though, as they often do not have a boom and the sail is not lowered with the gaff.
• A wishbone ketch rigged vessel is a vessel that is rigged as a ketch where a permanent splitting gaff is mounted between two masts.