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Yawl
Yawl meaning
A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars. | A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder post.
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The difference between a ketch and a yawl is that in a ketch, the mizzen mast is forward of the rudderpost (the axis of rotation for the rudder), while a yawl has its mizzen mast behind the rudderpost.
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By having only two sails, the individual sails of a sloop are larger than those of an equivalent cutter, yawl or ketch.
Harvey Conover and Revonoc * "Search Continuing For Conover Yawl", The New York Times, January 8, 1958.