Aside from this technical difference, the yawl and ketch RIGS are similar and have similar advantages and disadvantages.
The sailing boats are grouped according to their sails and masts, such as sloop, schooner yawl, and ketch.
Unlike in a ketch or yawl, the forward mast is smaller than the aft mast (or sometimes the same size).
The third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts, the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy.
If a ketch had larger sails than an equivalent sloop, it would heel more (making sailing less efficient) and be more likely to capsize.
INTRODUCTION: Two kids are dancing with fans, through which the author adopts the traditional Chinese way of painting, exaggeration and ketch to present a happy and joyful stage.
A two-masted fore - and-aft-rigged sailing vessel similar to the ketch but having a smaller jigger mast stepped abaft the rudder.
In all, a ketch carries about the same total square footage of sail area as a sloop of the equivalent size.
For example, with the wind at an intensity that a sloop might have to double-reef the main to reduce sail area, a ketch may sail very well under just jib and mizzen.
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So it's not the sail area that matters when deciding between a sloop and a ketch, but differences resulting from having that area spread over three rather than two sails.
