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Re: Uncertain Definition of a Ship Type...?
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lugnet.pirates
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Sat, 6 May 2000 19:12:15 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
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> Hi.
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> "Ketch."
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> Discuss.
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 thought I
knew something about ships. :-)
HTH,
-Shiri
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| (...) My son and I get out the glove and baseball and play ketch. No? (...) From the front to the back: foremast, mainmast, mizzenmast. The mizzenmast is aft (rear of ship) of the mainmast. This being a two-masted ship (all at once, "that means it's (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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