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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.
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. The name means "none ...
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 ...
Ketch A two-masted, fore-and-aft rigged sailing boat with a mizzenmast stepped forward of the rudder and smaller than its foremast. Knarr A large type of Viking cargo ship, fit for Atlantic crossings Lorcha A sailing ship with mixed Chinese (rig) and western design (hull) that used since 16th century in far east. Landing Ship, Tank
A ketch. Ketches are similar to a sloop, but there is a second shorter mast astern of the mainmast, but forward of the rudder post. The second mast is called the mizzen mast and the sail is called the mizzen sail. A ketch can also be Cutter-rigged with two head sails.
John Griffin Hanna (1889–1948) was a sailboat designer, famous for designing the Tahiti ketch.. Hanna was born in Galveston, Texas, on October 12, 1889.During his childhood he was afflicted with deafness following scarlet fever and lost a foot in a traffic accident.
He appointed Lieutenant Stephen Decatur captain of the ketch on 31 January 1804 and ordered him to prepare her for a month's cruise to Tripoli in company with Syren. Preble's orders directed Decatur to slip into harbor at night, to board and burn the frigate, and make good his retreat in Intrepid , unless it then seemed feasible to use her as a ...
British Steel was designed by Devon-based naval architect Robert Clark, and built in 1970 by Philip and Son, at Noss, on the River Dart. [1] Launched on 19 August of that year, after a record build time of four months, British Steel was described by Don Holme in his book The Circumnavigators as representing the absolute pinnacle of modern yacht design and construction at the time, particularly ...