The Lady Anne

This is the Lady Anne leaving New York Harbor about a month ago on her 1000 days at sea without ever touching land or being resupplied .

She's a gaff rigged schooner. Gaff rigged refers to the upper boomlike spars at the top of the 2 mainsails . They are called gaffs . The booms are the lower wooden spars .

Very few boats are gaffed rigged now . My parents boat when I was a kid was a gaff rigged boat with one mast called a sloop . Gaffed rigged boats are very pretty but sail a bit differently then non gaffed rigged that have the sail in a triangle going to the top of the masts and ending in a pointed top end ( like the jib sail in this picture , the sail at the bow or front ) . Suffice it to say I love sail boats especially old ones . allan