Definitions

1. A yawl is a two-masted sailing craft similar to a sloop or cutter but with an additional mizzen mast well aft of the main mast, often right on the transom.
2. A yawl is similar to a ketch, with the mizzen mast shorter than the main mast but the mizzen mast is carried astern of the rudder post.
3. YAWL is also a workflow-system.
4. The yawl is often confused with the ketch, which also has two masts with the main mast foremost.
5. The yawl was originally developed as a rig for commercial fishing boats.

Forward

1. Ketch: like a yawl, but the mizzenmast is often much larger, and is located forward of the rudder post.

Rig

1. The purpose of the mizzen sail in a ketch rig, unlike the yawl rig, is to also provide drive to the hull.

Similar Size

1. In consequence the mizzen sail of a yawl tends to be smaller, and the mainsail larger, when compared to a ketch of similar size.

Sloop

1. The mainsail of a yawl will be similar in size to that of a similarly sized and proportioned sloop.

Aft

1. Yawl: like a sloop or catboat with a mizzen mast located aft (closer to the stern of the vessel) of the rudder post.

Main Mast

1. In both a ketch and a yawl, the foremost mast is tallest, and thus the main mast, while the rear mast is shorter, and called the mizzen mast.

Masts

1. The burgee should fly from the top of the foremost mast on a vessel with multiple masts, or from the primary mast on a yawl or ketch.

Mizzen

1. Generally the mizzen on a yawl is smaller than the mizzen on a ketch, and is used more for balance than propulsion.

Ketch

1. Mizzen staysail - Sail on a ketch or yawl, usually lightweight, set from, and forward of, the mizzen mast while reaching in light to moderate air.
2. Mizzen - the shorter mast behind the main mast on a ketch or yawl.

Yawl

1. If a boat has two masts, it may be a schooner, a ketch, or a yawl, if it is rigged fore-and-aft on all masts.
2. The official difference is that a ketch has the mizzen mast forward of the rudder post whereas the mizzen on a yawl is aft of the rudder post.

Categories

1. Ketch
2. Mizzen
3. Masts
4. Schooner
5. Fore-And-Aft
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