Bart wrote:
If it falls and you catch it, it's a ketch!
If it falls, on a yawl, y'all go get it.

A good way to remember the difference
between a yawl and a ketch. It
helps people remember, and it is a lot
easy to explain than a complicated
discussion how a yawl has it's mast
behind the rudder post and is typically
1/2 the height of the main mast, while
on a ketch the mizzen mast is about
2/3 the height of the main mast and is
located ahead of the rudder post.

Heh. But on MY yawl, the mizzen is in tabernacle, and when it falls, it
falls forward, reducing the helmsman to ketchup.



Anyone know where the word
mizzen comes from?


Don't know. The etymology is mizzen inaction.

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