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What type of boat is a schooner?
A schooner is a sailing ship. Read More »
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What are some interesting facts on schooner boats?
The schooner Yacht America inaugurated and won the first America"s Cup-in l85l. Famous racing schooners included the fishermen Gertrude L Thebaud (legit Fishing craft) and the Canadian Bluenose- really a purpose- built racing yacht but it w... Read More »
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What does a Schooner boat have at least two of?
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Answer A Schooner is a multi-masted sailing vessel as contrasted with a Sloop or Catboat which has one mast. A Schooner has a Foremast in front of the Mainmast that is shorter (or the same height) as the Mainmast. A Ketch has a Mizzenmast t...
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A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being shorter or the same height as the rear masts.
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Schooner sails are parallel to the body of the ship. Other multi-masted boats' sails are perpendicular to the body of the ship.
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Smaller vessels where the hull is made using a mold are easiest done upside down. When the fiberglass or other resin based material has hardened it is easier to remove the mold and then flip the hull. Making a boat hull that is made form wo...
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http://www.yachtworld.com/ Looking for one myself. You can find one anywhere in the world here.
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There are fairly precise calculations for determining sail plans (as well as the sail areas in the first place). You establish the 'common centre of effort' (C of E) of the entire plan and relate this to the 'centre of lateral resistance' (...
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Or it might be a schooner rigged sailing vessel from which one fishes for the mighty Halibut! I sailed on just such a vessel in the mid 1980's, she is a steel Tom Colvin designed Pinky Schooner. We longlined halibut in the Hecate Strait out...
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