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A lugger is a sailing vessel defined by its rig, using the lug sail on all of its one or more masts. Luggers were widely used as working craft, particularly off the coasts of France , England , Ireland and Scotland .
The Drascombe Lugger is a British trailerable sailboat that was designed by John L. Watkinson and first built in 1968. [ 1 ] The Drascombe Lugger design is the basis of a large range of similar Drascombe boats with different hull, cabin and rig configurations.
1974 Drascombe Lugger "Roamer" sailing East Bay Florida. The word Drascombe is a trademark that was first registered by John Watkinson who applied it to a series of sailing boats which he designed and built in the period 1965–79 and sold in the United Kingdom (UK).
A lugger, showing a variety of lug sail types. The lug sail, or lugsail, is a fore-and-aft, four-cornered sail that is suspended from a spar, called a yard. When raised, the sail area overlaps the mast. For "standing lug" rigs, the sail may remain on the same side of the mast on both the port and starboard tacks.
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Experiment was the only lugger specifically designed and built for the Royal Navy, and rather unusually, she had three masts. [1] (The Royal Navy did use a number of hired luggers. Lieutenant George Hayes commissioned Experiment in June 1793. Lloyd's List reported on 7 March 1794 that the lugger Experiment had taken a Danish brig near Calais ...
The brig ran for Havre de Grace but the lugger sailed in another direction as Leda pursued her. [2] After six hours Leda succeeded in capturing the lugger, which turned out to be the brand new vessel Adolphe, under the command of Nicholas Famenter. [4] She was eight days out of Boulogne.