The northern fleet consisted of different types of vessels comprising sloops, small schooners and ketches.
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The ketches and the sloops often managed to make two voyages in a season.
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Both theketchand the yawl differ from the two-masted schooner, whose aft mainmast is taller than the foremast.
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With sloops, ketches and schooners the starboard yardarm or spreader of the highest or main mast is the second most honoured position.
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The distinguishing characteristic of aketchis that the forward of the two masts (the mainmast) is larger than the after mast (the mizzen).
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On older, larger ketches the main mast may in addition carry one or more square rigged topsails.
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Many of the smaller ports were visited only by coastal ketches and schooners.
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The three masts are rigged as a wishboneketch.
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In 1975, he was involved in a round-the-world voyage in a large trimaranketch.
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Originally the creek provided access to the many ketches and steamers which came in and out on timber business.
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These were loaded from the ketches which were in turn loaded at the jetty.
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Sagax finds a bow on theketch(the property of its previous owners) with similar markings to the pawring.
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Though effective, this arrangement made for poor sailing qualities and by 1790 the ship rig had replaced theketch.
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Guards suddenly noticed theketchstill had her anchors and gave the alarm.
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Both sails in theketchare driving sails.
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