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A ketch is a two-masted sailboat whose mainmast is taller than the mizzen mast (or aft-mast), [1] and whose mizzen mast is stepped forward of the rudder post. The mizzen mast stepped forward of the rudder post is what distinguishes the ketch from a yawl, which has its mizzen mast stepped aft of its rudder post. In the 19th and 20th centuries ...
Schooner A fore and aft-rigged vessel with two or more masts of which the foremast is shorter than the main Settee Single-decked, single or double-masted Mediterranean cargo vessel carrying a settee sail Shallop A large, heavily built, sixteenth-century boat which is fore-and-aft rigged; more recently a poetically frail open boat Ship or full ...
2-mast (ketch rig) steel hull with aluminium flybridge Sea Eagle II: 81.00 m (266 ft) Royal Huisman: Dykstra Naval Architects: 2020: 3-mast aluminium schooner with flybridge Mirabella V: 77.60 m (255 ft) Vosper Thornycroft: Ron Holland: 2004: 1-mast (sloop rig) aramid foam core/vinylester sandwich flybridge, refitted at Pendennis in 2014 Badis ...
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World's largest two-mast schooner at launch: 2-mast Bermuda: Atlantic: 2010 Douglas, Isle of Man: Replica of racing yacht Atlantic (William Gardner, 1903) 3 mast gaff Atyla: 1984 Badalona, Spain: Sail training vessel (Civil) 2 masted schooner, staysail Belle Poule: 1932 Brest: Naval training vessel 2 masted gaff, square topsail [19] Bill of ...
Lewis R. French, a gaff-rigged schooner Oosterschelde, a topsail schooner Orianda, a staysail schooner, with Bermuda mainsail. A schooner (/ ˈ s k uː n ər / SKOO-nər) [1] is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast.
A wishbone ketch rigged vessel is a vessel that is rigged as a ketch where a permanent splitting gaff is mounted between two masts. Contrary to the gaff rig (where the gaff is hoisted together with the sail) the gaff stays in the mast. The gaff is typically fixed on the first mast (the one closer to the front) and fixed via a line to the ...
The scow schooner Alma of San Francisco, built in 1891, restored in the 1960s, and designated a National Historic Landmark (NHL) in 1988, was one of the last scow schooners in operation. She is a small example, 59 feet in length, 22.6 feet in beam, with a draft of 4 feet and a loaded displacement of 41 tons.