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His childhood friend Danny Merritt, who has sailed with me since he was a teenager, was sitting alongside on the taffrail.
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Those not reaching all the way to the taffrail are called short stern timbers, while those that do are called long stern timbers.
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The stern is the rear or aft-most part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter rail to the taffrail.
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The stern now came to a point rather than a flat panel or a gentle curve, and the counter reached from the sternpost all the way to the taffrail in a continuous arch.
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- The railing around the stern of a ship
- The upper part of the ship's stern, usually ornamented with carved work or molding.
- Some maintain that the world taffrail is a combination of three words, namely -- the after rail. Others claim it is a misspelling of the Dutch word "Tafareel" which means painting on the stern.
- Rail around a vessel stern.
