Quadrilateral Fore-and-aft Sails
Gaff, gunter, lug, junk and some sprit sails have four sides and are set fore-and-aft so that one edge is leading.
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“It was a poetic recreation to watch those distant sails steering for half-fabulous ports, whose very names are a mysterious music to our ears.... It is remarkable that men do not sail the sea with more expectation. Nothing was ever accomplished in a prosaic mood.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)