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A West Country ketch or a Tamar ketch is a two-masted sailing ketch, designed for carrying cargo from the South West England, predominantly from the ports of the River Tamar, to ports on the Celtic Sea, such as Cork. [1] [2] The West Country ketch is a specialist type of ketch designed for the waters of the Celtic Sea.
33.50 m (110 ft) Gebruder de Vries Scheepsbouw: Henri Willem de Voogt: 1939: Auxiliary steel ketch Doha 2006: 33.50 m (110 ft) Multiplast: Gilles Ollier: 2000: Ocean racing carbonfiber catamaran, originally Club Med: Heritage M: 33.50 m (110 ft) Perini Navi: 2000: Steel sloop, originally Heritage: Mousetrap: 33.50 m (110 ft) JFA: VPLP: 2012
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.
Ticonderoga, also called Ti or Big Ti, is a 72-foot (21.9 m) ketch, designed by L. Francis Herreshoff and launched in 1936 at Quincy Adams Yacht Yard in Massachusetts. [1] She was known under the name of Tioga II until 1946. [2] [3] As a ketch, Ticonderoga features two masts: a taller main mast towards the bow and a shorter mizzen mast towards ...
After the breakthrough in 1968 Cowes Week, Swans continued to score victories in the early seventies by winning several famous races including the Bermuda Race in 1972 and 1992 by Swan 48 [7] [8] and especially in 1973–1974, when a brand new ketch rigged Swan 65 by the name Sayula II won the first ever Whitbread Round the World Race (known as The Ocean Race since 2019) skippered by Ramon Carlin.
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Gipsy Moth IV is a 53 ft (16 m) ketch that Sir Francis Chichester commissioned specifically to sail single-handed around the globe, racing against the times set by the clipper ships of the 19th century. Gipsy Moth IV was the first ever purpose-built ocean racer and has over the years become the most famous of small sailing vessels.
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