: a fore-and-aft rigged vessel similar to a yawl but with a larger mizzen sail and with the mizzenmast stepped farther forward
Illustration of ketch
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Recent Examples on the WebNow those waters—especially as plied aboard a traditional Turkish gulet or ketch (wooden sailing yacht)—are one of the world’s most popular sailing destinations, and a wish-list item for even wanna-be sailors. Ann Abel, Forbes, 27 June 2022 It was taken by crew members on a ketch that sailed near the island of Java in the summer of 2019. Michelle Nijhuis, Scientific American, 20 July 2022 Scic has a fleet of classic ketch yachts with modern schooner rigging and sails with a surface area of around 4,300 square feet. Ann Abel, Forbes, 27 June 2022 The focus of the adventure, the Eilean, is a 70-foot ketch built by legendary yacht builder William Fife III in 1936, around the time Panerai was making its first series of watches for the Italian Navy’s special operations unit, or COMSUBIN. Carol Besler, Robb Report, 27 June 2022 Unlike its more visible protest cohorts, the Golden Rule is a 34-foot wooden ketch that embarked on its first anti-nuclear arms protest in 1958. Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2022 That year, a crew of mostly Quaker activists sailed to Hawaii aboard the ketch with the goal of interfering with U.S. atmospheric nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands. Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 June 2021 The 282-foot Aquijo might be the largest high-performance sailing ketch in the world, but that wasn’t the primary goal of its design. Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2021 London designed his dream boat, a 55-foot wooden ketch, and departed San Francisco in 1907 with his wife, Charmian, and a woefully inexperienced crew. Karen Carmichael, National Geographic, 9 Sep. 2020 See More