Thanks. Good corrections. You're right about all of them. We are pretty
new to the whole sailing thing, and without looking it all up I wanted to
respond to Horvath's brilliant answer to what kind of boat was in the movie
(a sailboat--duh! followed by the "probably a sloop" thing that exposed even
more ignorance than we have about sailboats). The good thing about
ignorance is that it can be corrected with study. Stupidity lasts a
lifetime.

We too think it is a good movie, although I think she'd have been wiser to
kill the jerk when she had the chance. Of course, if she had to tie him up,
tying his hands behind his back instead of in front would also have been
wiser. Whatchagonnado? It's a movie, and an entertaining one at that.

Thanks again for the intelligent and kind responses. We sailed with a guy
this summer (just a day cruise, sadly) who could tell us about every boat we
saw--make, approx size and so forth. He might have known the answer, but we
didn't think to ask him if he knew the movie.

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"Claxton" wrote

A schooner is a double masted boat

At LEAST 2 masts. Can be more.


with the masts of the same size.

The fore mast can be shorter.

That's what the Orpheus was--the black,
leaky, death boat. A ketch has two masts, the smaller one in the
stern.

But ahead of the rudder post, otherwise it's a Yawl.


That's what Rhea and John were sailing. What we really want to know
is who
the manufacturer was and what size it was.

Sorry, don't know. Like the movie though.


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Scott Vernon
Plowville Pa _/)__/)_/)_