Gaffle parus - a type of oblique sail , a sail in the form of an irregular trapezoid, which is attached to the top with the top hook , the bottom - to the boom , front - to the mast with the help of segar , a rail with sliders or laced with slab .
Appeared at the beginning of the XVII century as a result of the improvement of the Latin sail .
Often installed in conjunction with a half-topsel . A haf-topsel is a triangular sail, which is attached to the hafel with its lower side, and to the yoke to the vertical.
Sprint sail - a trapezoidal sail with a sharp rear knock angle , stretched by a diagonally set rod - a sprint, the lower end of which rests against the line on the mast and the upper end - into the rear knock angle of the sail.
Historically, a hafel sail was replaced by Bermuda .
Links
- Maritime Dictionary, M, Military publishing house of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, 1959
- Marine Encyclopedic Dictionary, Ld, "Shipbuilding", 1991, ISBN 5-7355-0280-8