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On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 12:42:54 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 10:09:14 -0400,
wrote:

Your boat was considerably larger than the skiff they just completed
on YouTube. Different boats for different conditions no doubt. In
the harbors on Long Island Sound that I am most familiar with, they
use a different technique and smaller boats. They'll typically rig a
steadying sail to help them maintain position while working a rake or
basket on the end of a very long pole.

That sounds like a skipjack.

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Not at all, skipjacks are real sailboats. The ones I'm talking about
are just ordinary work skiffs with a small, improvised steadying sail
-- sometimes just a tarp rigged to a pole.