They are sloop-rigged and very stable in calm ... course or lowered to reduce sail area when winds pick up. A ketch is similar to a yawl with two masts however, the mizzen mast on a ketch is ...

Lawrie Smith’s British sloop Rothmans had a 39-mile lead over Peter Blake’s ketch Steinlager 2 Wednesday as 22 yachts competing in the Whitbread Round the World Race continued the 5,475-mile ...