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ketch <-es> [ketʃ] N

ketch

dvojamborna jadrnica f

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A cutter may have more than one headsail, and a ketch, yawl or schooner may have more than one sail on a boom. en.wikipedia.org

Though effective, this arrangement made for poor sailing qualities and by 1790 the ship rig had replaced the ketch. en.wikipedia.org

On older, larger ketches the main mast may in addition carry one or more square rigged topsails. en.wikipedia.org

They make traditional ketch rigged motorsailers and the pilothouse sailing yachts. en.wikipedia.org

The distinguishing characteristic of a ketch is that the forward of the two masts (the mainmast) is larger than the after mast (the mizzen). en.wikipedia.org

From roughly 1875 to 1920, they were extended to make 80-foot gaff ketches, sometimes by the cut-and-shut procedure. en.wikipedia.org

In 1975, he was involved in a round-the-world voyage in a large trimaran ketch. en.wikipedia.org

In the ketch configuration the mainsail is gaff rigged and the mizzen a balanced lug. en.wikipedia.org

The larger smacks were lengthened and re-rigged and new ketch-rigged smacks were built, but boats varied from port to port. en.wikipedia.org

Both the ketch and the yawl differ from the two-masted schooner, whose aft mainmast is taller than the foremast. en.wikipedia.org

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