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ketch <a ketch; ketches> N

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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.
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In the ketch configuration the mainsail is gaff rigged and the mizzen a balanced lug.
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With sloops, ketches and schooners the starboard yardarm or spreader of the highest or main mast is the second most honoured position.
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The three masts are rigged as a wishbone ketch.
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Historically the mainmast was square rigged instead of fore-and-aft, but in modern usage only the latter is called a ketch.
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Further modifications followed, with the replacement of the engines in 1981 and the fitting of sails in a ketch rig in 1985.
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In 1975, he was involved in a round-the-world voyage in a large trimaran ketch.
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Many of the smaller ports were visited only by coastal ketches and schooners.
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The distinguishing characteristic of a ketch is that the forward of the two masts (the mainmast) is larger than the after mast (the mizzen).
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Both the ketch and the yawl differ from the two-masted schooner, whose aft mainmast is taller than the foremast.
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