Ness Yawl Question

[D Gobby]

On Duckflats website it shows a Ness Yawl rigged as a Gunter Yawl, does anyone know if that is a standard sail plan for the Ness boat, or is it a Caledonia yawl mis-named.

[gazzer]

The designer has drawn 3 sail plans. Look here:

http://www.jordanboats.co.uk/JB/IainO_Catalogue/Ness Yawl.pdf (http://www.jordanboats.co.uk/JB/IainO_Catalogue/Ness%20Yawl.pdf)


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[ShagRock]

On Duckflats website it shows a Ness Yawl rigged as a Gunter Yawl, does anyone know if that is a standard sail plan for the Ness boat, or is it a Caledonia yawl mis-named.A yawl is a categorized type of boat, while a gunter is a type of sail rig. Oughtred has often re-named his designs but I doubt he ever mis-names them. You can put various sail types (including single main or combined with fore or aft sails as he notes) on a Ness or Caledonia yawl. Others who own and sail yawl boats might be along shortly to give you more insightful answers to your query.

[ShagRock]

Oops..double entry.

[Peerie Maa]

A yawl boat is an American boat type, but.
A yawl in Britain is a two masted rig where the mizzen is smaller than the mizzen of a ketch, and used to be stepped on the counter aft of the rudder head.
Gunter is a gaff or lug sail with the yard peaked up to near vertical.
You can have a gaff, gunter or bermudan yawl, depending on how the mainsail is rigged.
I know that that was probably teaching Granny and all that, but we are two nations separated by a common language.

Just to confuse things further, in the Shetlands, Orkney's, Western Isles, and at Groomsport N Ireland, Yawl or Yoal is a small(ish) clinker built double ended boat with hollow garboards derived from the norse/Norwegian boats, This is from where Ian took the name for his design.