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Re: Uncertain Definition of a Ship Type...?
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Sun, 7 May 2000 04:47:54 GMT
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Hi.
Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
> In lugnet.pirates, Shiri Dori writes:
> > In lugnet.pirates, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> > >
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > "Ketch."
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> My son and I get out the glove and baseball and play ketch.
I was waiting for this. I tossed you a soft pitch, and fully expected you to hit
it out of the park. ;)
> > > 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."
Oooh, thanks. I was more concerned about how it has historically been employed.
"Bomb Ketch" is what I'm most familiar with.
> > Just don't ask me what that means. Mizzenmast, hurmph. (and me thought I
> > knew something about ships. :-)
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> 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.
Okay...now what do you call the "bonus mast" on a schooner with *four* masts...?
Or do the rules go out the window when money flies innuendo...no, wait, wrong
ending. I mean, do rules go out the window when you no longer have "true"
ship-rigs? What on Earth do you call the four bonus masts on the _Thomas W.
Lawson_?
incitingly,
Lindsay
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| (...) masts...? Foremast, foreward mainmast, mainmast, and mizzen. And I have no doubt that there are exceptions to the rule. When a mizzen becomes a jigger, I don't know. (...) Dunno what the Thomas W. Lawson is. Bruce (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: Uncertain Definition of a Ship Type...?
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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