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She carried a number of smaller vessels, including two picket boats, a launch, a pinnace, two cutters, two yawls, and two dinghies. en.wikipedia.org

On the yawl and ketch, the mainsail is flown from the forward mast, or mainmast, and the aft mast is the mizzen-mast. en.wikipedia.org

I talked to the captain and expected that he would put out a yawl and pick me up. en.wikipedia.org

Next in complexity are the ketch, the yawl, and the schooner, each of which has two masts and a minimum of three sails. en.wikipedia.org

If a boat has two masts, it may be a schooner, a ketch, or a yawl, if it is rigged fore-and-aft on all masts. en.wikipedia.org

Many cruiser designs are cutter rigged meaning they carry two headsails, and many have a second mast (mizzen), in the yawl or ketch configuration. en.wikipedia.org

Though most boats had been destroyed or confiscated during the war, after two weeks a yawl was secured and stocked. en.wikipedia.org

Early boats were developed from single-masted cutters and twin-masted yawls, and later into the specialist pilot cutter. en.wikipedia.org

This was due to the ability of a yawl to be trimmed to sail without rudder input. en.wikipedia.org

They carried a number of smaller boats, including one picket boat, one barge, two yawls, and two dinghies. en.wikipedia.org

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