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
It was taken by crew members on a ketch that sailed near the island of Java in the summer of 2019.
From Scientific American • Jul. 20, 2022
From horizon to horizon, from stern to bow, the sea all around them was glowing as their 52-foot-long ketch passed south of the Indonesian island of Java on a moonless night.
From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2022
Thornton has entered his 104-foot ketch Whitehawk in the cruising division of the 111th edition of the world’s oldest annual freshwater distance race.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 11, 2019
It was a sixty-foot gaff-rigged ketch with a wide beam—a real tub—but as I stood on deck it felt solid against the harbor chop.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
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