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  2. Yawl - Wikipedia

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    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

  3. Virginia (schooner) - Wikipedia

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    6,438 square feet (598.1 m 2) sail area Virginia is a wooden schooner that is a modern replica of an early twentieth century pilot vessel of the same name. She conducts educational programs and passenger trips along the Eastern Seaboard of the United States and Canada , and in the Caribbean .

  4. List of ship types - Wikipedia

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    A Mediterranean sailing ship, typically three-masted, lateen-rigged and powered also by oars, with a characteristic overhanging bow and stern Yacht A recreational boat or ship, sail or powered Yawl A yawl is a two masted, fore and aft rigged sailing vessel with the mizzen mast positioned abaft (behind) the rudder stock

  5. Schooner - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. List of schooners - Wikipedia

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    2 masted gaff knockabout [2] Adventurer-56 (formerly Blue Max) 1984 Annapolis, Maryland: Privately owned Staysail [3] Adventuress: 1914 Port Townsend, Washington: National Historic Landmark former pilot boat 2 masted gaff [4] Alabama: 1926 Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts: Tourism vessel, former pilot boat 2 masted gaff [5] Alaska Rover: 1989

  7. American Eagle (schooner) - Wikipedia

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    The American Eagle, originally Andrew and Rosalie, is a two-masted schooner serving the tourist trade out of Rockland, Maine.Launched in 1930 at Gloucester, Massachusetts, she was the last auxiliary schooner (powered by both sail and engine) to be built in that port, and one of Gloucester's last sail-powered fishing vessels.

  8. Ketch - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  9. Brigantine - Wikipedia

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    A brigantine is a two-masted sailing vessel with a fully square-rigged foremast and at least two sails on the main mast: a square topsail and a gaff sail mainsail (behind the mast). [1] The main mast is the second and taller of the two masts.