Fore-and-aft rig

A fore-and-aft rig is a sailing rig consisting mainly of sails that are set along the line of the keel rather than perpendicular to it. Such sails are also described as fore-and-aft rigged.

Fore-and-aft rigged sails include:
*Staysails.
*Bermuda rigged sails
*Gaff rigged sails.
*Gaff sails.
*Lateen sails.
*The spanker on a square rig.

Fore-and-aft rigs include:
*Single masted rigs:
**The catboat
**The sloop.
**The cutter.
*Two masted rigs:
**The ketch.
**The yawl.
*Rigs with two or more masts:
**The schooner.
*Rigs with three or more masts:
**The barquentine.

Other meanings

"Fore and Aft Rig" is a nickname for a kind of Royal Navy uniform with a conventional jacket, shirt and tie rather than jumper and bellbottoms (known as square rig).