Sea Scout Book

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Types of Sailing Craft Sloop

A Sloop is a single masted vessel, fore and aft rigged with one headsail.

Cutter

Cutter is a single masted vessel with two headsails

Ketch

A ketch is a two masted vessel fore and aft rigged on both masts and the mizzen mast is tepped forward of the rudder head.

Yawl

A yawl is a two masted vessel fore and aft rigged on both masts and mizzen mast is stepped aft of the rudder head

Brigantine

A brigantine is a two masted vessel, square rigged on the fore mast and fore and aft rigged on the after mast.

Asgard

ireland has a Sail training Vessel 'Asgard II' she is a brigantine. You do not have to know about square rigging, but it would be interesting for you to be able to recognise 'Asgard II'

Schooner

A two or more masted vessel fore and aft rigged on all masts. In a two masted schooner the after mast is the main mast.


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