"Brian Sandle" wrote in message
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Brian Sandle wrote:

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Then could it look like a sloop from some angle?

I don't understand many terms. Is it a ketch that is cutter-rigged?

A ketch has two masts, the aft mast being shorter than the main mast.
Sloops and cutters have one mast. Schooners have two masts the main mast
being aft. Sloops and cutters appear the same when unrigged. The problem
is that Wallace said that he dropped them off at a ketch. Watson's boat was
a sloop or cutter. You cannot turn a sloop into a ketch overnight! If you
are alongside a ketch with any light at all those two masts are going to
stick out against the sky like the proverbial dogs' balls. A ketch could be
mistaken for a sloop only from dead ahead or dead astern when the two masts
are lined up. A sloop would never be mistaken for a ketch.

R