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yawl
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
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2001
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yawl n.
1. a two-masted fore-and-aft-rigged sailboat with the mizzenmast stepped far aft so that the mizzen boom overhangs the stern.
2. a ship's jolly boat with four or six oars.
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Flotilla sets sail to mark milestone for Humber yawl club ; A Flotilla of old and new river craft will sail out into the Humber on Saturday, to mark the 125th anniversary of the Humber Yawl Club.
Newspaper article from: Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph; 6/2/2008; 700+ words
; ...mark the 125th anniversary of the Humber Yawl Club. Around 70 of the club's 130 vessels...and we are very proud of it." Humber Yawl Club's south bank mate, Tom Baggott...vessels and possibly catamarans. The Humber Yawl Club was formed in 1883 by members of the...
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LONG ISLAND MACKEREL YAWLS.(fishing boat repicas)
Magazine article from: World of Hibernia; 12/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...UNTIL THE 1950s, THE LONG ISLAND MACKERAL YAWLS HAD BEEN CONSIGNED TO THE MEMORIES OF THE...was preparing his Long Island Mackerel Yawl for its "shakedown outing"--the first...numerous but now extinct Long Island Mackerel Yawls, which were built a century or so ago...
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Yawls and Youth
Newspaper article from: Monterey County Weekly; 7/21/2005; ; 410 words
; It's about goodwill, historic preservation and maritime science, yawl. Over the last decade two Russian Navy "yawl" boats have been used by Boat Base Monterey to teach Monterey and California's youth about the...
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YAWL HURRY ON BACK
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 9/11/1988; 228 words
; Two yawls maneuver yesterday off South Dartmouth, where about 80 yawls took part in a race. SIMONS;09/10 LDRISC;09/12,16:36 CAP34AM1 Caption: PHOTO Globe staff photo/Joanne Rathe
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Yawl can sail home for the deadly duo.(Sport)
Newspaper article from: Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland); 10/18/2009; 460 words
; Byline: GORDON BROWN THE jumpers are beginning to take centre stage and Yawl Springs can do the business for us on a decent little card at Kempton. YAWL SPRINGS (4.0) made an encouraging debut for the Philip Hobbs yard at Perth recently...
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Alden 59 yawl. (sailboat)
Magazine article from: Yachting; 11/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...overburden the autopilot. Which brings us to the rig. Some think yawls should be sloops. Even though a small mizzen doesn't add...very traditional and lovely. All in all, the Alden 59 Yawl is a piece of art. The designers captured the spirit of the...
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In the class by herself; the yawl Bolero and the passion for craftsmanship.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2006; 443 words
; 0939511134 In the class by herself; the yawl Bolero and the passion for craftsmanship. Rousmaniere, John. Mystic Seaport 2006 165 pages $50.00 Hardcover GV822 The yawl Bolero, a 73-foot sailboat, was first launched in 1949. Rousmaniere...
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The water lily: Ben Canaider looks at the relationship between Sir James Hardy and the boat that was born around the same time he was, the old yawl Nerida. (Profile).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Offshore Yachting; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...shipwright and designer Alfred Milne. Hardy senior wanted a stylish yawl, with a low coach house to ensure a good profile. Being 6...he was killed by an error of navigation. Originally a Bermuda yawl, Nerida was changed to a cutter in the 1940S after being sold...
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Plain sailing for parade organisers ; A Flotilla of yachts painted a pretty picture on the River Humber on Saturday with a parade of sail to mark the 125th anniversary of the Winteringham and Brough-based Humber Yawl Club.
Newspaper article from: Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph; 6/9/2008; 615 words
; ...125th anniversary of the Winteringham and Brough-based Humber Yawl Club. About half the club members' 130 vessels took to the...style yachts, a catamaran, dinghies and an historic Humber Yawl, Leona, built in 1906. Individual vessels displayed national...
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Designs. (Dawn 41 cruiser, Bertram Special Sport Fisherman, Oyster 53 sloop, wooden yawl by Bill Cook) (column)
Magazine article from: Yachting; 6/1/1985; ; 700+ words
; German Frers designed the Dawn 41 for The Boatworks Inc. of Rowayton, Conn., and, like the Dawn 48 cruising ketch he did for that company two years ago ("Designs," Feb., 1983), she's being built of fiberglass in Hong Kong by the highly capable Kong & Halvorsen yard. The brief called for an
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yawl
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
yawl, a type of rig of a small sailing boat or...of the Dutch word jol , or skiff . The true yawl rig consists of two masts, cutter rigged...rigged on the foremast would also be termed a yawl. The rig is very similar to a ketch , the...
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ketch
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
...stepped before the rudder head, while in a yawl it is stepped abaft it. However, this...position of the mizzen-mast, most of the yawl-rigged beach boats, including the well-known Norfolk yawls, would be ketches. From the ketch rig...
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yachting
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
...latter half of the century the cutter rig predominated, though yawls were also built. The latter half of the 19th century was a...most important from the point of view of racing design was the yawl-rigged Jullanar (see Fig. 2). She was built and designed...
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dandy-rig
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
...rig, another name, fallen into disuse, for the ketch and yawl rigs. It was also sometimes used to describe the rig when the...mizzen-sail about half the size of the mainsail and the true yawl rig having a mizzen-sail a quarter the size, or less. In...
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On the Underground Railroad (c. 1850, by Levi Coffin)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...steal boats or anything else that will help them gain their liberty." The entire party crowded into three large skiffs or yawls, and made their way slowly across the river. The boats were overloaded and sank so deep that the passage was made in much...
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