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
Ship's boat
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A ship's boat is a utility boat carried by a larger vessel. Ship's boats have always provided transport between the shore and other ships. Other work done by such boats has varied over time, as techno
Yawl
…Sussex Beach Yawls (called "yols" by the men who crewed them), which were probably the fastest-sailing open boats ever built. A yawl is also a type of ship's boat. The definition, size, number of oars and sailing rig varied over time. This was one of the normal working boats carried by a ship in the age of sail…
HMS Thetis run aground in North Carolina, 1794. Her boats have just laid two kedge anchors to haul her off and are now sounding the depth of the water in the region of the anchors.
A Royal Navy Montagu whaler being manned with an armed boarding party to check a neutral vessel stopped at sea, October 1941
1834 painting of HMS Pique's gig by John Christian Schetky
A ship's tender of MSC Orchestra