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Gaff rig. Gaff rig[1] is a sailing rig (configuration of sails, mast and stays) in which the sail is four-cornered, fore-and-aft rigged, controlled at its peak and, usually, its entire head by a spar (pole) called the gaff. Because of the size and shape of the sail, a gaff rig will have running backstays rather than permanent backstays.
A well smack was a type of traditional fishing boat in use in the United Kingdom and then the Faroe Islands between the late 18th century and around 1920. It had a well amidships. The well was filled with circulated external water, which kept fish alive until delivered to land and sold. It was a modified form of a fishing smack .
A yawl is also a type of ship's boat. The definition, size, number of oars and sailing rig varied over time. This was one of the normal working boats carried by a ship in the age of sail. In local usage, the term yawl was sometimes applied to working craft which did not fit any of the definitions given above.
Smack (ship) A smack near Brightlingsea. Calm in Gloucester Harbor, by Carlton Theodore Chapman, c. 1890, shows American fishing smacks (Brooklyn Museum). A smack was a traditional fishing boat used off the coast of Britain and the Atlantic coast of America for most of the 19th century and, in small numbers, up to the Second World War.
Spanker (sail) The spanker is the fore-and-aft sail at the lower right. On a square rigged ship, the spanker is a gaff-rigged fore-and-aft sail set from, and aft of, the aftmost mast. [1][2][3] Spankers are also called driver, jigger, and pusher sail. [4] On a schooner of four or more masts, the spanker is the sail on the mast nearest the stern.
A dinghy[2] is a type of small boat, often carried or towed by a larger vessel for use as a tender. [3] Utility dinghies are usually rowboats or have an outboard motor. Some are rigged for sailing but they differ from sailing dinghies, which are designed first and foremost for sailing. A dinghy's main use is for transfers from larger boats ...