KLC Lewis wrote:
"Paul Cassel" wrote in message
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Harbin Osteen wrote:
I'm a big fan of Cat-Ketch type of sail rigs, but in a artical I read
about the Mari-Cha IV, it is a type of sloop, but both mast are
the same. What is this type of rig called?

Mari-Cha IV:
http://www.mari-cha4.com/pub/frameset.php

Fits into no defined category. If I had to fit it, I'd call it a schooner.
I sure won't defend that label, though.

I'd say either schooner or ketch, since when both masts are the same height
it's hard to find any definitive definition, as Paul says. Considering that
it carries modern sails with a modern hull form, "Ketch" probably fits
better than "Schooner."


I once got a bit of a lecture from some old salt who said that a
schooner's masts can be the same height. We can also argue that a
ketch's mizzen is always shorter than the main.

http://www.answers.com/topic/schooner

This definition backs up that old salt.

-paul