A Gaffer is a gaff sailor or gaff-rigged boat. Old gaffer boats were saved after the Second World War when they were going cheap after advances introduced glass fibre hulls to replace wooden ones and better less complicated sails and rigs. By 1980 Old Gaffer Racing like this one in Plymouth Sound had also allowed the triangular Bermudan rigged sailing gaffers to compete. The gaff rig is four sided controlled at the top by a pole or gaff.