#taffrail

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King Salman Park Visitor Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,

Designed by Adjaye Associates,

Photographed by Paulo Martins Barata

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The Taffrail

A taffrail is a railing at the stern of the ship or the handrail around the open deck area at the stern of a ship or boat. The term is a shortening of taffarel, the original name for this ornament.

The stern of the Prins Willem with a wooden carved taffrail and a Captain on the Poop deck taffrail, by William Heysmann Overend (1851-1898) (x) (x)

Sometimes the railing refers only to the curved wooden top of the stern of a sailing ship or an East Indian ship.  It could also be a complete handrail along the poop deck. The rail of these wooden sailing ships usually had hand-carved wooden mouldings, which were often highly ornamented.

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Seventy North (70 degree N.). Taffrail [Henry Taprell Dorling]. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1934. First edition. Original dust jacket by C. C. P. Lawson.

Uncommon mystery thriller set amongst the British fishing fleets of the northern waters.

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