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a two-masted sailboat that put its smaller mast in front of the rudder, smugly
means A two-masted sailing vessel whose shorter mizzen mast stands forward of the rudderpost, distinguishing it from the similar yawl.
from From the verb 'catch' — a ketch was originally a 'catch' or 'catche,' a fast little vessel built to chase down and overtake others. The spelling drifted over the centuries until the boat kept the chase in its name while losing the sense, leaving 'ketch' as a quiet fossil of pursuit.
- mast rule
- Mizzen sits forward of the rudderpost, unlike a yawl
- shrinking sails
- Splits canvas into pieces one person can handle
- old word
- Name likely from catch, meaning a chasing vessel
- workhorse past
- Hauled cargo along European coasts for centuries
hmcs endeavour — canadian research vessel operated since 1974, famous for arctic and pacific oceanographic expeditions
spray — joshua slocum's ketch that completed the first solo circumnavigation 1895-1898
wanderer iii — eric and susan hiscock's ketch that circumnavigated the world in the 1950s-60s