Year: 2009 Language: english Author: John Leather Genre: Reference book Publisher: Adlard Coles ISBN: 978-1-4729-0836-0 Format: EPUB Quality: eBook Pages count: 240 Description: The Gaff Rig Handbook is considered a definitive, comprehensive, and essential work aimed to anyone designing, building, rigging, sailing, or simply studying gaff rigged craft. The book provides a complete insight into the design, history, techniques and developments of a famous rig, which marked the golden age of sail yacht, evolved through the centuries, and lasted up to the period between the two World Wars, when Marconi-bermudian rig began to be preferred for reasons of ease of maneuver and reduced crew, essentially for cost reasons. The author outlines the practical aspects of the masts, spars, sails, running and standing rigging, and contrasts the development of the gaff rig in Britain, America, Scandinavia and France.
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The Gaff Rig Handbook
Year: 2009
Language: english
Author: John Leather
Genre: Reference book
Publisher: Adlard Coles
ISBN: 978-1-4729-0836-0
Format: EPUB
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 240
Description: The Gaff Rig Handbook is considered a definitive, comprehensive, and essential work aimed to anyone designing, building, rigging, sailing, or simply studying gaff rigged craft. The book provides a complete insight into the design, history, techniques and developments of a famous rig, which marked the golden age of sail yacht, evolved through the centuries, and lasted up to the period between the two World Wars, when Marconi-bermudian rig began to be preferred for reasons of ease of maneuver and reduced crew, essentially for cost reasons. The author outlines the practical aspects of the masts, spars, sails, running and standing rigging, and contrasts the development of the gaff rig in Britain, America, Scandinavia and France.
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