- hull type or to the use
which the
vessel is put. As a
rig, a
yawl is a two masted, fore and aft
rigged sailing vessel with the
mizzen mast
positioned abaft...
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running before the wind or on a
broad reach. The word yoal is a
variant of
yawl.
Until about 1860,
yoals were
imported in kit form from the area
around Bergen...
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distinguishes the
ketch from a
yawl,
which has its
mizzen mast
stepped aft of its
rudder post. In the 19th and 20th centuries,
ketch rigs were
often emplo**** on...
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outside the lifts, are
called the yardarms. A ship
mainly rigged so is
called a square-
rigger. In "Jackspeak" (Royal Navy slang), it also
refers to the...
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spanker sails on a
square rigged vessel are
always gaff
rigged. On
other rigs,
particularly the sloop,
ketch and
yawl, gaff
rigged sails were once common...
- A full-
rigged ship or
fully rigged ship is a
sailing vessel with a sail plan of
three or more masts, all of them square-
rigged. Such a
vessel is said...
- Holmes, he was a
mainstay of the
Humber Yawl Club
which developed the use of
sailing canoes with a
yawl rig.
Albert Strange was born on 29 June 1855...
- the
yawl Rigs with two or more masts: the
schooner Barques and
barquentines are
partially square rigged and
partially fore-and-aft
rigged. A
rig which...
- mainmast, and any
additional masts are
rigged square, and only the
aftmost mast (mizzen in three-masted barques) is
rigged fore and aft. Sometimes, the mizzen...
- HMS Endeavour was a well-known example). Many of
these full-
rigged ships (square
rigged on all of
three masts) had the hull type "bark" –
another common...
