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gaff-rigged

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gaff-rigged
adj
(Transport / Nautical Terms) (of a sailing vessel) rigged with one or more gaffsails


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His own "tugantine," the Norfolk Rebel, is a gaff-rigged schooner that has worked the gamut from towing to commercial fishing.
The gaff-rigged ketch, above, was a wedding present from Dr and Mrs Hamilton Osgood of Boston to their daughter Mary on her marriage to Erskine Childers.
The resort's RNLI lifeboat, the Andrew Pierce, went to its aid at 9pm on Sunday, tackling choppy seas to reach the 76ft steel gaff-rigged ketch.
 
 
 
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