Very good. Ten Loki point for you!

Chapman also says a sloop has the jib off the bowsprit, while a knockabout has
it on the forestay at the stem. A cutter has, in effect, both.


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Jeff Morris wrote:

Sorry, Bart. I think your Dutch friend was yanking your chain!

No, what Bart described would work.



But here's a question: I've heard the term "knockabout" as a type of small
boat
but never saw a formal definition. This morning I was reading a 1943
edition of
Chapman's - how do you think Charles defined them back then?

IIRC a "knockabout" was a boat with no bowsprit, a bit earlier than 1943
though. For
example a number of fishing schooners, without bowsprits, were described as
"knockabouts." But that was 1920s and earlier, by 1943 then it probably meant
something else. There were some early (1930s) marconi rigged one-designs
(again, no
bowsprit, but by this time that was the norm rather than the exception) called
knockabouts.

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