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John Griffin Hanna (1889–1948) was a sailboat designer, famous for designing the Tahiti ketch.. Hanna was born in Galveston, Texas, on October 12, 1889.During his childhood he was afflicted with deafness following scarlet fever and lost a foot in a traffic accident.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, ketch rigs were often employed on larger yachts and working watercraft, but ketches are also used as smaller working watercraft as short as 15 feet, or as small cruising boats, such as Bill Hanna's Tahiti ketches or L. Francis Herreshoff's Rozinante and H-28.
As the wind increased, the smallest boats were towed to safety and returned to tow larger boats. The pilots could not be with the fishermen all day so the design chosen for new boats was the large ketch. 33 ketch-rigged rescue boats were built from 1893 to 1924. 28 of the ketches were Archer’s design and 13 were built by Archer.
This is a list of notable sailboat designers and manufacturers, which are described by an article in English Wikipedia. Sailboat design and manufacturing is done by a number of companies and groups. Notable designers
In March 1967, a 28-year-old British merchant marine officer, Robin Knox-Johnston, realised that a non-stop solo circumnavigation was "about all there's left to do now".". Knox-Johnston had a 32 foot (9.8 m) wooden ketch, Suhaili, which he and some friends had built in India to the William Atkin Eric design; two of the friends had then sailed the boat to South Africa, and in 1966 Knox-Johnston ...
A cat-ketch is a sailboat that is rigged as both a catboat and a ketch.Specifically, there is larger mast stepped at the very bow, and a smaller mast further aft.It is different from a standard ketch rig because there is no jib, and the foremost mast is further forward than most ketches.
The boat was built by C&C Yachts, at Erich Bruckmann's custom shop at Bronte, Ontario, Canada, starting in 1970.During its production run, a total of nine examples were completed, [1] [3] though it is possible the last two 61s credited as built were actually constructed and registered as 62 ft (19 m) ketches (see C&C Custom 62).
The Beachcomber 25 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim.It has an unstayed cat ketch or, optionally, a sloop rig, a plumb stem, raked transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a retractable centerboard.