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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.
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 ...
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.
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The Bayfield 40 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of balsa-cored fibreglass, with wood trim.It has a staysail ketch rig, with aluminum spars, a clipper bow with a bowsprit and trailboards, a raised counter transom, a keel-mounted rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed long keel.
Falie is a 33.4-metre (110 ft) ketch that traded for many years in Australian waters. Originally built in 1919/1920 as a speculation by her builder, rigged as a schooner and named Hollands Trouw after the shipyard where she was built, she was purchased by the Spencer's Gulf Transport Company, renamed, and used for coastal trading in South Australia.
A cat-ketch is a sailboat that is rigged as both a catboat and a ketch.Specifically, there is larger mast stepped at the very bow, and a smaller mast further aft.It is different from a standard ketch rig because there is no jib, and the foremost mast is further forward than most ketches.
The Freedom 28 Cat Ketch is a small recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass. It has an unstayed cat ketch rig, a transom-hung rudder and a swing-up centerboard. It displaces 7,000 lb (3,175 kg) and carries 3,800 lb (1,724 kg) of lead ballast. [1] [2] The spars are made from carbon fiber.