Starboard Yardarm

1. The White Ensign may also be worn on a gaff, and may be shifted to the starboard yardarm when at sea. (Web site)

Gaff Rig

1. Gunter Rig - Similar to a gaff rig, except that the spar forming the "gaff" is hoisted to an almost vertical position, extending well above the mast.

Yardarm

1. In the absence of a gaff the ensign may be flown from the yardarm. (Web site)

Way

1. On a Marconi rig, the ensign may be flown about two-thirds of the way up; on a gaff rig, just under the gaff. (Web site)

Collar

1. Parrel – A movable loop or collar, used to fasten a yard or gaff to its respective mast.

Flags

1. Flying two flags from the gaff is after all just a solution for the rare event when two national ensigns have to be flown. (Web site)
2. On occasion, the simple flagpole is fitted with a yardarm or gaff to increase the number of flags that may be flown from it.

Fly

1. The only parallel I know of that has official sanction is that when USN and USCG ships display the ensign while under way, they fly it at the gaff. (Web site)
2. In the middle of the session, Gaff had to fly out to play a big gig with Dave Alvin in Washington. (Web site)

House Flag

1. The ensign was flown at the gaff of the flag staff and the house flag of Devitt and Moore at the masthead. (Web site)

Peak

1. The U.S. ensign is not depicted flying correctly from the peak of the gaff.

Whales

1. Today, the ordinary gaff is only being used to pull killed whales ashore. (Web site)

Blubber

1. The whales are then stabbed in the blubber with a sharp hook, called a gaff, before being pulled to shore. (Web site)
2. The pilot whales that are not beached were often stabbed in the blubber with a sharp hook, called a gaff (in Faroese sóknarongul), and then pulled ashore. (Web site)

Flagstaff

1. The national flag flow from the flagstaff in port and the gaff at sea. (Web site)

Stern

1. Ensign s are national maritime flags flown by ships, at the stern, from a gaff, or from the yard-arm.

Ship

1. In addition, a ship that enters a port at night displays its ensign from the gaff at daylight for a sufficient time to establish its nationality.
2. TOPSAIL: The sail above the lowermost sail on a square-rigged ship; also, the sail set above and sometimes on the gaff in a fore-and-aft rigged ship. (Web site)
3. Page 90. The ship the ship is crushed and partially sunk in the ice, and a what appears to be a Red ensign is flying from the gaff peak. (Web site)

Aft

1. The captain and other officers were still aft, and the nearest position from which they found it practical to fly the ensign turned out to be the gaff peak. (Web site)
2. Gaff, gunter, lug, junk and some sprit sails have four sides but are set fore and aft so that one edge is leading.

Sailboats

1. Sailboats, when underway, may also wear the national flag from the backstay at a position roughly at the peak of the gaff. (Web site)

National Ensign

1. When the ship gets under way, the national ensign may be shifted to the gaff, if the vessel has a mast and a gaff.

Ensigns

1. Ensigns are national maritime flags flown by ships, at the stern, from a gaff, or from the yard-arm.
2. Ensigns may also be flown from the gaff of a ship, and may be shifted to a yardarm when the ship is underway, where it is known as a steaming ensign.
3. Ensigns may also be flown from the gaff of a ship, and may be shifted to the yard-arm when the ship is underway.

Ensign

1. The ensign is flown from an ensign-staff at the stern of the ship, or from a gaff when underway.
2. A good example of bad etiquette is for a corporate or company vessel to fly the company flag from the stern (ensign) staff or gaff.
3. Since the captain and other officers were still aft, the nearest position from which they found it practical to fly the ensign was the gaff.

Spar

1. Spar: The term for a mast, boom or gaff. (Web site)
2. G Gaff – 1. The spar that holds the upper edge of a four-sided fore-and-aft mounted sail. (Web site)

Masts

1. Barquentine is a sailing vessel with two for and aft rigged masts (usually gaff rigged) at the stern with the forward mast(s) square rigged. (Web site)

Mast

1. Gaff rigged – A boat rigged with a four-sided fore-and-aft sail with its upper edge supported by a spar or gaff which extends aft from the mast. (Web site)
2. Ships with two masts hoisted the ensign on a gaff at the after mast.
3. Barque or Bark is a sailing vessel with one for and aft rigged mast (usually gaff rigged) at the stern with all forward masts rigged as square riggers. (Web site)

Sails

1. GAFF A spar in a gaff rig (four sided sails) to which the top side of the sailed is attached. (Web site)
2. Most modern designs have only one sail, the mainsail; however the traditional catboat could carry multiple sails from the gaff rig. (Web site)

Sail

1. GAFF: A spar to support the head of a gaff sail. (Web site)
2. Halyards: - lines used to haul up the sail and the wooden poles (boom and gaff) that hold the sails in place. (Web site)
3. Gaff - The spar that holds the upper edge of a sail.

Gaff

1. Under sail, a sailboat rigged with a gaff flies the ensign at the peak of the gaff of the aftermost mast.
2. Aboard sailboats under way, the proper place to display the national ensign is at the peak of the gaff.
3. Some sailboats without a gaff will have an ensign stitched to the leech of the mainsail two-thirds of the way up from the foot of the sail.

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