"Bart" wrote in message
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On Sep 20, 1:09 pm, "Capt. JG" wrote:
"Bart" wrote in message

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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.

Anyone know where the word
mizzen comes from?

Here's a reference... it's uncertain at best...

http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Etymology/Mizzen.htm

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I read that mizzen comes from the Arabic word
missan with means to balance.



I read that also... another one of those 1000s of years old, lost in the
sands of time words.


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