Both sails in the ketch are driving sails.
Guards suddenly noticed the ketch still had her anchors and gave the alarm.
Though effective, this arrangement made for poor sailing qualities and by 1790 the ship rig had replaced the ketch.
Sagax finds a bow on the ketch (the property of its previous owners) with similar markings to the pawring.
These were loaded from the ketches which were in turn loaded at the jetty.
Originally the creek provided access to the many ketches and steamers which came in and out on timber business.
In 1975, he was involved in a round-the-world voyage in a large trimaran ketch.
The three masts are rigged as a wishbone ketch.