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The yoal, often referred to as the ness yoal, is a clinker-built craft used traditionally in Shetland, Scotland. It is designed primarily for rowing, but also handles well under its traditional square sail when running before the wind or on a broad reach. The word is cognate with yawl and yole.
A yawl is a type of boat. The term has several meanings. It can apply to the rig (or sailplan), to the hull type or to the use which the vessel is put. As a rig, a yawl is a two masted, fore and aft rigged sailing vessel with the mizzen mast positioned abaft (behind) the rudder stock, or in some
Jubilee under sail. A Sgoth or Sgoth Niseach is a traditional type of clinker built skiff with a dipping lug rig, a Lateen style sail, built mainly in Ness, in the Western Isles of Scotland. The boats were traditional fishing boats, particularly for line fishing, during the 19th century and until the early half of the twentieth century. [1]
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The design features a yawl sail plan, six berths, and over 6.0 ft (183 cm) of headroom ("standing headroom throughout"). [9] A centerboard allowed for a minimum draft of 3 ft 11 in (1.2 m) that extended to 8 ft 15 in (2.8 m) when lowered.
A yole is a clinker-built boat that was used for fishing particularly in the north of Scotland. The best known of these is the Orkney Yole. They were rigged for sail or used as rowing boats. The yole is a Nordic design and closely related in shape to the Shetland Yoal and Sgoth Niseach of the Outer Hebrides.
Concordia Yawls #85 Arapaho and #82 Coriolis. The Concordia yawl is a class of wooden yawl sailboats; it was designed in 1938 by the naval architect C. Raymond Hunt with input from Llewellyn and Waldo Howland, Clinton Crane, Fenwick Williams and Frank Paine. [1]
The Tartan 27 Yawl is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by Sparkman & Stephens as a cruiser and first built in 1961. [1] [2] [3] [4]The Tartan 27 Yawl is a development of the Tartan 27 sloop, with a shorter main mast and the addition of a mizzen mast with a sail of 36.86 sq ft (3.424 m 2) mounted in the lazarette.