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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 ...
This vessel, and others that Hanna studied, would inspire the design of Hanna's famous Tahiti ketch. [1] Hanna died in 1948. Hanna originally wrote of his Tahiti ketch as a 30-foot (9.1 m) deep-sea auxiliary cruiser. The design is described and illustrated in detail in the 1935 new edition of How to build 20 boats, pp. 118–133. [2]
Ketch rigged, she has a sail area of 854 sq ft (79.3 m 2), extendable with a spinnaker to over 1,500 sq ft (140 m 2). The boat incorporated the maximum amount of sail for the minimum amount of rigging, whilst employing tiller based self-steering using design principles established by Blondie Hasler that could enable steerage from the skipper's ...
Gleaner, later HMS Gleaner, was a ketch launched in 1802. She initially served as a light vessel and survey vessel. She served the Royal Navy as the "hired ketch Gleaner" from 12 July 1808 until the Navy purchased her in 1809.
Nonsuch was the ketch that sailed into Hudson Bay in 1668-1669 under Zachariah Gillam, in the first trading voyage for what was to become the Hudson's Bay Company two years later. [1] Originally built as a merchant ship in 1650, and later the Royal Navy ketch HMS Nonsuch , the vessel was sold to Sir William Warren in 1667.
USS Araner was a wooden-hulled auxiliary ketch, designed by Jack Hanna, built in 1926 at Essex, Massachusetts by the Arthur D. Story Shipyards, and acquired by motion picture director John Ford in June 1934. Originally named Faith, she was refurbished and renamed Araner in honor of the Aran Islands, whence Ford's family had come.
The Ketch Seafood Grill at 2012 Regency Rd., has been a Lexington dining landmark since 1987. The seafood restaurant has been sold. Cedar plank grilled salmon with jerk sauce served with grilled ...
The dogger was a development of the ketch. It was gaff-rigged on the main-mast, and carried a lug sail on the mizzen, with two jibs on a long bowsprit. The boats were generally short, wide-beamed and small, and were used for trawling or line fishing on the Dogger Bank. The name "dogger" was effectively synonymous with ketch from the early ...