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On other rigs, particularly the sloop, ketch and yawl, gaff rigged sails were once common but have now been largely replaced by the Bermuda rig sail, [4] which, in addition to being simpler than the gaff rig, usually allows vessels to sail closer to the direction from which the wind is blowing (i.e. "closer to the wind"). [citation needed]
The ketch's main mast is usually stepped further forward than the position found on a sloop. [3] The sail plan of a ketch is similar to that of a yawl, on which the mizzen mast is smaller and set further back. There are versions of the ketch rig that only have a mainsail and a mizzen, in which case they are referred to as cat ketch. More ...
A gaff cutter, Kleine Freiheit, with a genoa jib set USCGC Legare, an example of a US Coast Guard cutter A cutter is any of various types of watercraft.The term can refer to the rig (sail plan) of a sailing vessel (but with regional differences in definition), to a governmental enforcement agency vessel (such as a coast guard or border force cutter), to a type of ship's boat which can be used ...
Many mast-aft rigs utilize a small mainsail and multiple staysails that can resemble some cutter rigs. A cutter is a single masted vessel, differentiated from a sloop either by the number of staysails, with a sloop having one and a cutter more than one, or by the position of the mast, with a cutter's mast being located between 50% and 70% of the way from the aft to the front of the sailplan ...
A Bermuda sloop, the most common version of the sloop in modern sailing vessels [1]: 52 Gaff rigged sloop, 1899. In modern usage, a sloop is a sailboat with a single mast [2] generally having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail abaft (behind) the mast. It is a type of fore-and-aft rig.
Ketch A two-masted, fore-and-aft rigged sailing boat with a mizzenmast stepped forward of the rudder and smaller than its foremast. Knarr A large type of Viking cargo ship, fit for Atlantic crossings Lorcha A sailing ship with mixed Chinese (rig) and western design (hull) that used since 16th century in far east. Landing Ship, Tank
[7]: 225–230 On a modern two-sailed sloop, there is only the jib and the mainsail. A cutter may have more than one headsail, and a ketch, yawl or schooner may have more than one sail on a boom. In what follows, the jibs and boomed sails on such craft can either be treated as one of each, or lowered for the purposes of reduced windage, heel or ...
After the breakthrough in 1968 Cowes Week, Swans continued to score victories in the early seventies by winning several famous races including the Bermuda Race in 1972 and 1992 by Swan 48 [7] [8] and especially in 1973–1974, when a brand new ketch rigged Swan 65 by the name Sayula II won the first ever Whitbread Round the World Race (known as The Ocean Race since 2019) skippered by Ramon Carlin.