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Subject: 
Uncertain Definition of a Ship Type...?
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Date: 
Sat, 6 May 2000 18:43:29 GMT
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Hi.

"Ketch."

Discuss.

laconically (but involving $1.50 words),

LFB



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  Re: Uncertain Definition of a Ship Type...?
 
(...) FWIW... From GuruNet: "ketch (kĕch) n. Nautical. A two-masted fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessel with a mizzenmast stepped aft of a taller mainmast but forward of the rudder." Just don't ask me what that means. Mizzenmast, hurmph. (and me (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)

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