Yawl Question

[sailortonyb]

Y'all made me a believer

I finally got an estimate off to the insurance company yesterday. Im for certain they will total me out. Now its a matter of how long it will take to settle this matter. After all, Katrina was only in August.Anyway, i guess im still leaning toward a ketch or cutter. I think a sloop is losing out on my vote. The advantage of a ketch or cutter is a somewhat reduced sail size and mast height and bridges will be a way of life for me.

 

[Ed Hanley14076]

As y'all are aware,

many sailboats used to have long overhanging counters, main masts set well forward with long booms, and small headsails, so there was good reason to set another sail aft for balance, and plenty of room to do it. Typically, they were quite small, with the boom overhanging the transom and sheeted to the end of a "boomkin" with no traveler. You will also be excited to know that at the end of one long rainy day, I found myself in Youngall, pronounced "yawl", a picturesque fishing port in Ireland still glorying in having been the location for scenes in "Moby Dick" w/ Gregory Peck. Is this thread now exhausted?

 

[Tom Monroe]

I like them ...

Sailed and raced a yawl on Lake Michigan for several years. Dead to windward, the sloops clocked us cause they carried a taller main and more sail area in the headsail.Off the wind, the yawl outperformed them. Five sails possible, in wonderful combinations for various conditions. Broad off, a mizzen staysail is just a wonderful sail. For racing, give me a sloop. For cruising, they make a lot of sense. Don Street, whose's nobodies fool on sailing, has long been their advocate.Those of you who were scoffing at the rig, however, missed one important vertue. Gives one a great balancing position while taking a whiz ...Tom MonroeCarlyle Lake