Yawl
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A yawl is a type of boat. The term has several meanings. It can apply to the rig, to the hull type or to the use which the vessel is put.
A yawl setting a genoa, main, and mizzen
The Drascombe Lugger is rigged as a yawl with a gunter mainsail and a leg o'mutton mizzen, sheeted to an outrigger.
Jangada Tibau
Trawer Hauling Nets
Ketch
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A ketch is a two-masted sailboat whose mainmast is taller than the mizzen mast, and whose mizzen mast is stepped forward of the rudder post. The mizzen mast being stepped forward of the rudder post is
Yawl
…vessel with the mizzenmast positioned abaft (behind) the rudder stock, or in some instances, very close to the rudder stock. This is different from a ketch, where the mizzen mast is forward of the rudder stock. The sail area of the mizzen on a yawl is consequently proportionately smaller than the same sail…
Swan 65 ketch flying a spinnaker
Fisher30 motorsailer ketch