Exempel på ketch

• The northern fleet consisted of different types of vessels comprising sloops, small schooners and ketches.

• The ketches and the sloops often managed to make two voyages in a season.

• Both the ketch and the yawl differ from the two-masted schooner, whose aft mainmast is taller than the foremast.

• With sloops, ketches and schooners the starboard yardarm or spreader of the highest or main mast is the second most honoured position.

• The distinguishing characteristic of a ketch is that the forward of the two masts (the mainmast) is larger than the after mast (the mizzen).

• On older, larger ketches the main mast may in addition carry one or more square rigged topsails.

• Many of the smaller ports were visited only by coastal ketches and schooners.

• The three masts are rigged as a wishbone ketch.

• In 1975, he was involved in a round-the-world voyage in a large trimaran ketch.

• Originally the creek provided access to the many ketches and steamers which came in and out on timber business.

• These were loaded from the ketches which were in turn loaded at the jetty.

• Sagax finds a bow on the ketch (the property of its previous owners) with similar markings to the pawring.

• Though effective, this arrangement made for poor sailing qualities and by 1790 the ship rig had replaced the ketch.

• Guards suddenly noticed the ketch still had her anchors and gave the alarm.

• Both sails in the ketch are driving sails.