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A Book About a Thousand Things
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This will clear things up (on the subject of yawl vs. ketch): The schooner may be distinguished from the ketch by the placement of the mainsail. On the ketch, the mainsail is flown from the most forward mast; thus it is the main-mast, and the other mast is the mizzen-mast. A two-masted schooner has the mainsail on the aft mast, and therefore the other mast is the fore-mast (When the mizzen mast is located aft of the rudder post, the vessel is called a yawl.)
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This is useless. It says nothing about when and where the term was first used to describe a lady's portion of beer.
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@2, as for the distinction between ketch vs. yawl, the placement of the mizzen is often cited, however the largest difference is the size of the mizzen sail (ie, yawls have much smaller mizzens).
I've never understood why schooners (in a pub) are called that. Usually schooners are rather large. Somebody should look that up.
I've never understood why schooners (in a pub) are called that. Usually schooners are rather large. Somebody should look that up.
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I just assumed they were named after the beer glasses (@3, lady's portion, my ass -- I can remember a time not too distant when a schooner was all you could get in a tavern; when "pints" were some kind of nasty furrin innovation. I still think of a pint of Budweiser as a really weird thing, like a pig on a surfboard. Plus, you know, the hotter the climate, the smaller the beer glasses, so, here in Seattle, we should...fuck it. Never mind.
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