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A fore-and-aft topsail may be carried above the upper or onlyspanker, and is called the "gaff sail".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In the course of a longer story or novel, thespankerwill often punish different spankees in different and creative ways.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The only wooden spar was the gaff of the smallspanker.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.On a square rigged ship, thespankeris a gaff rigged fore-and-aft sail set from and aft of the aftmost mast.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Studding sails have also been used to increase the sail area of a fore-and-aftspanker, again by extending the upper spar.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Her five masts, all yards and thespankerboom were made of steel tubing; lower mast and topmast were made in one piece.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The only wooden spars were the four royal yards, the four topgallant masts and the two gaffs of thespankerfore-and-aft sails.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The vessel also carriedspanker, jib, and flying jib sails.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Some also carry a topsail above the uppermost or onlyspanker, called the gaff sail.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Almost all square rigs with more than one mast have one or two spankers, which evolved from the driver sail.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.On a racing or cruising yacht, aspankeris an additional headsail set beside and to leeward of a spinnaker when running downwind.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In this method of measuring bowsprit including jibboom and out-board part ofspankerboom if any have both no effect on the ship's length.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.One or two spankers are carried aft of the aftmost mast, if two they are called the "upperspanker" and "lowerspanker".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Herspankerboom projected far beyond the stern.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The spankees were more or less objects to her and therefore proof of the spanker's power.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Smaller than a fore and afterspankeron a square rigger, a driver is tied to the same spars.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A typical koff had one and a half masts with a gaff rigged main sail andspankerand one or two square sails in the main top.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Behind the main sail there is a small fore-and-aft sail called thespankeror boom mainsail (it is somewhat similar to the main sail of a schooner).
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