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Dunton is a two-masted wooden-hulled schooner, with a rounded bow and bowsprit. She has two topmasts with a height of 112 feet 8 inches (34.34 m). Her body is 104 feet 3 inches (31.78 m) long, with a total vessel length of about 121 feet (37 m). Her beam is 25 feet (7.6 m) and her draft is 11 feet 6 inches (3.51 m).
Tourism vessel, former pilot boat 2 masted gaff [5] Alaska Rover: 1989 Resurrection Bay, Alaska: Working schooner plying the tourism trade. 2 masted gaff rigged, topsail schooner. [6] Albanus: 1988 Mariehamn, Åland: Sail training vessel, replica of a 1904 freighter 2 masted gaff [7] Alma: 1891 San Francisco National Historic Landmark former ...
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 ...
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.
American Eagle is a single-deck two-masted schooner, measuring 76.4 feet (23.3 m) in length between the perpendiculars, and a total length of 90 feet (27 m).Her beam is 19.3 feet (5.9 m), and her hold depth is 10 feet (3.0 m).
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
Argo is a two-masted staysail schooner that measures 112 feet (34 m) overall and accommodates twenty six students and seven professional crew on ocean voyages. [4] Sailing under the Seamester flag, Argo circumnavigates on 90-day college semester-based programs and shorter 21-day and 60-day programs during the northern hemisphere summer.
Equator was a two-masted pygmy trading schooner known for carrying passengers Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Vandegrift Stevenson on a voyage through the islands of Micronesia in 1889. She was later used as a wire drag vessel by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey , and finally as a tugboat along the Puget Sound until her abandonment ...