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1. From an unmarked ketch the authorities watched him feeding scraps of metal from the car-deck to the seagulls which exploded.

2. In his thirty-two-foot ketch, Nuria, he set out from the small harbour under the shoulder of his Hebridean island.

3. She's a beauty; a forty-foot ketch built of mahogany on oak.

4. A ketch is a common rig for cruising sailboats.

5. With ketch bp or mayonnaise? With ketchup , eplease.

6. A ketch therefore uses three primary sails: the mainsail and head sail, as on a sloop, plus the mizzen sail aft.

7. If a ketch had larger sails than an equivalent sloop, it would heel more (making sailing less efficient) and be more likely to capsize.

8. Aside from this technical difference, the yawl and ketch rigs are similar and have similar advantages and disadvantages.

9. In all, a ketch carries about the same total square footage of sail area as a sloop of the equivalent size.

10. While a ketch offers these advantages to cruisers, they may also be more expensive because of the added mast and sail.

11. The primary advantages of a ketch are that each of the sails is usually somewhat smaller than on a sloop of equivalent size, making sail handling easier.

12. Unlike in a ketch or yawl, the forward mast is smaller than the aft mast (or sometimes the same size).

13. You listen to his gruff voice giving orders to his crew as they row him out to his ketch.

14. "The disease can also cause grotesque lumps under the skin,(Sentencedict.com)" Ketch said.

15. This means that the mainsail and head sail of a ketch are generally smaller than on a sloop, but the mizzen sail roughly makes up the difference.

16. A popular rig for midsize cruising boats is the ketch, which is like a sloop with a second, smaller mast set aft, called the mizzenmast.

17. She has also studied everything from how to stitch her own wounds to how to cope with sleep deprivation and how to put out fires on board her 11.5-metre twin-mast ketch.

18. "About three weeks worth,[sentencedict.com] " I replied. I nodded toward the ketch. " He helped me sail her up from Panama. "

19. If you are looking for a cruising sailboat, depending on your preferred size range, you may be choosing between a sloop and a ketch, the two most common types of cruising sailboats.

20. Selling off their businesses as well as the family's farm, the couple started their endeavor with Craig leaving first to begin replanking the hull of a ketch in the Caribbean.

21. So it's not the sail area that matters when deciding between a sloop and a ketch, but differences resulting from having that area spread over three rather than two sails.

22. For example, with the wind at an intensity that a sloop might have to double-reef the main to reduce sail area, a ketch may sail very well under just jib and mizzen.