ketch

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One was a former merchant marine whose wooden 32-foot ketch was barely adequate for a journey through the punishing Southern Ocean.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

A recent addition comes from Sam Keck Scott, who in the summer of 2010 helped to sail a restored Dutch ketch from Malta to Singapore, crossing the Arabian Sea.

From Scientific American • Jul. 23, 2022

His ketch, Ganesha, named after a Hindu god of beginnings, carried a crew of seven.

From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2022

Errol Flynn regularly sailed through on his ketch, Sirocco; Colette wrote books at her bungalow; and Coco Chanel and Jean Cocteau vacationed here.

From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2020

“Naw, Ah thank yuh. Nothin’ couldn’t ketch me dese few steps Ah’m goin’.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston