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The cat ketch rig experienced a brief period of renewed interest in the 1970s and 1980s as carbon fiber spars made free-standing mast versions of this rig possible for cruising boats under 40 feet. Staysails can also be hoisted between the top of the mizzen mast and base of the mainmast to help downwind performance.
A smack was a traditional fishing boat used off the coast of Britain and the Atlantic coast of America for most of the 19th century and, in small numbers, up to the Second World War. Many larger smacks were originally cutter-rigged sailing boats until about 1865, when smacks had become so large that cutter main booms were unhandy. The smaller ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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]
Another era in Lexington dining is sailing off into the sunset: The Ketch Seafood Grill, a longtime seafood restaurant on Southland Drive, has been sold. Owner Art Howard said Tuesday that the ...
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.