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Old Gaffers' Race

1987 , Stone Point (Essex)

Cat no. 950

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Sailing craft with the distictive 'gaff' rigs feature in this record of the race held on the Blackwater Estuary.

The Old Gaffers' Race on the Blackwater Estuary starts at Stone Point, where a large number of old and modern sailing craft with gaff rigs fill the river. Most of the film shows the boats sailing the course. The commentary explains the history of the Old Gaffers' Club and describes some of the boats. At the end of the race, the crews come ashore and the film ends with prize giving.

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Old Gaffers' Race

Keywords

Competitions; Sailing

Background Information

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. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Old Gaffers' Race

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