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Gaff rig is a sailing rig (configuration of sails) 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. The gaff enables a fore and aft sail to be four sided, rather than triangular, and as much as doubles the sail area that can be carried by that mast and boom (if a boom is used in the particular rig). Additionally, for any given area of sail, the gaff rig will have a lower heeling moment than a triangular sail.
A sail hoisted from a gaff is called a gaffrigged sail.
Gaff rig remains the most popular rig for schooner and barquentine mainsails and other course sails, and spanker sails on a square rigged vessel are always gaff rigged. On other rigs, particularly the sloop, ketch and yawl, gaff rigged sails were once common but have now been largely replaced by the bermuda rig sail, which, in addition to being simpler than the gaff rig, usually allows boats to sail closer to the direction the wind is coming from.
Gaff may refer to:
I really can't remember why
Why I loved you
I really can't remember when
When I gave a care
Everytime I think of you
You keep on fading
And everytime I hear your name
I feel nothing deep inside
I know that your callin
I know that your tryin to change my mind
Anyway that I sing it
It is still the same
Your a G out of key
And one note remains
In the key of C
I don't give an F about you
Anyway that I sing it
It is still the same
Your a G out of key
And one note remains
In the key of C
I don't give an F about you
I really can't remember why
Why I need it
I really can't remember how
How you layed me down
Now you seem to come around
Uninvited
But you don't seem to understand
Or even hear my words
I could sing acapela
Or do re mi fa
With an orcastra
You won't change my tune
Anyway that I sing it
It is still the same
Your a G out of key
And one note remains
In the key of C
I don't give an F about you
Anyway that I sing it
It is still the same
Your a G out of key
And one note remains
In the key of C
I don't give an F about you
Oh (oh) I know (know)
Let go (let go, let go)
Sitting in the key of C
Oh (oh) I know that your missin me
Let go (let go, let go)
(Sitting in the key of C)
I could sing acapela
Or do re mi fa
With an orcastra
You won't change my tune
Anyway that I sing it
It is still the same
Your a G out of key
And one note remains
In the key of C
I don't give an F about you
Anyway that I sing it
It is still the same
Your a G out of key
And one note remains
In the key of C
I don't give an F about you
And you keep on tryin to call me
And I see that you are lonely
In the key of C (key of C)
I don't give an F about you
After all the lies and games
Heres my note and my note remains
In the key of C