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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 20:06:01 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Shiri Dori writes:
> In lugnet.pirates, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> >
> > Hi.
> >
> > "Ketch."
My son and I get out the glove and baseball and play ketch.
No?
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> > Discuss.
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> FWIW...
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> 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."
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> Just don't ask me what that means. Mizzenmast, hurmph. (and me thought I
> knew something about ships. :-)
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> HTH,
> -Shiri
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 not a ship") it will have a tall mainmast and a smaller
foremast or mizzenmast. Since the larger mast is forward, it is termed the
mainmast rather than the foremast in this case. If the mizzenmast was placed
aft of the of the rudder (and most likely it would be a smaller mast than on a
ketch), it would be a yawl. Reverse the sizes on a ketch's masts so that the
larger is aft (and more towards the center of the ship) and it is a schooner.
Let's not mention a topsail schooner! :-)
Bruce
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| Hi. (...) I was waiting for this. I tossed you a soft pitch, and fully expected you to hit it out of the park. ;) (...) Oooh, thanks. I was more concerned about how it has historically been employed. "Bomb Ketch" is what I'm most familiar with. (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: Uncertain Definition of a Ship Type...?
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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