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[jezjez]

East coast weather this week!

 

[johnalison]

Gunter porn at that.

 

[DanTribe]

Gunter porn at that.

Are you sure? Appears to have a peak and throat halliard, so I think gaff.
Not that I'm pedantic!

 

[Puffin10032]

Are you sure? Appears to have a peak and throat halliard, so I think gaff.
Not that I'm pedantic!

Definitely gaff rigged. In its narrowest (most pedantic?) definition a gunter rig would have a tensioned wire strop up the back of the mast to which the gaff is attached. This allows the gaff to slide up and down for reefing without falling away from the mast. Whether the simplified rig seen on small dinghies such as Herons and Mirrors can truly be called a gunter is an argument I'll leave to the pedants.

Anyway, whatever the nomenclature of the rig, that's a very nice boat.

 

[johnalison]

Definitely gaff rigged. In its narrowest (most pedantic?) definition a gunter rig would have a tensioned wire strop up the back of the mast to which the gaff is attached. This allows the gaff to slide up and down for reefing without falling away from the mast. Whether the simplified rig seen on small dinghies such as Herons and Mirrors can truly be called a gunter is an argument I'll leave to the pedants.

Anyway, whatever the nomenclature of the rig, that's a very nice boat.

Maybe. The only gunter boat I have sailed was the Yare and Bute ODs on the Broads which we called gunter because the gaff was high and close to the mast, as in this boat, so for me a gunter rig is just a very high gaff, rather than having any particular equipment.

 

[Jan Harber]

I too photographed this gaff cutter yesterday as she sailed past us on a moorings at Ramsholt and I have since found out more about her. She is Capriccio, formerly Wendy, designed by Morgan Giles and built at Fishbourne, IoW in 1912. When she came to the East Coast in the 1980s she was re-named. She has been owned since 2019 by an OGA member and is kept at Ramsholt on the Deben.

 

[14K478]

I would not normally presume to post on the same page as Jan Harber but this is my only pretty picture, snapped with an iphone from the cockpit of my son’s Squib, and it shows the Harman family yacht EDME, still engineless, going like a train for the finish line of the Pin Mill barge match on the 24th September 2022. This was a case of “There is no second” because the rest of the fleet were still in Harwich Harbour.

 

[Puffin10032]

Maybe. The only gunter boat I have sailed was the Yare and Bute ODs on the Broads which we called gunter because the gaff was high and close to the mast, as in this boat, so for me a gunter rig is just a very high gaff, rather than having any particular equipment.

The closeness of the gaff to the mast is a bit of an optical illusion as Jan Harber's image shows. Y&BODs have both a throat and a peak halyard according to their class rules so are definitely gaff rigged regardless of how high the gaff is held. You can see a similarly high gaff on the OGAs excellent Gaffling dinghy.