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Square Rigged

Square Rigged
Square Rigged

A Square Rigged ship has rectangular sails which set roughly perpendicular to ("square to") the keel of the ship. They are carried on large horizontal spars called yards. The outermost tips of those are called yardarms. When the sun is higher in the sky that the yardarm it's time for some rum.


These are "classic" ships you'd see in a movie - many have appeared in movies. Most have a small but classic "cabin" in rear suitable for Aubrey & Maturin.

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Lady Washington

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length112
beam22
height
draft11
displacement210
sailarea4442
built1989
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Builder: Aberdeen WA (1989)
Home Port: Gray's Harbor WA
  • Bright blue-orange-yellow sides with white and red at the waterline. (unfortunately, similar to Pacific Swift)
  • Both masts square-rigged
  • Front mast shorted (Schooner)

Lady Washington is a full-scale replica of the original Lady Washington, the first American ship to

  • round Cape Horn
  • make landfall in Oregon
  • reach Japan

The new replica is the Official State Ship of Washington. She has appeared in many films.

Pacific Swift

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length111
beam20.5
height88
draft10.5
displacement98
sailarea5205
built1986
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Home Port: Victoria BC
The shorter foremast is square rigged, with the mainmast Help the chief, tallest mast of a ship, gaff-rigged Help quadrilateral sail attached at the top to a gaff.

  • Steeply raked two-piece masts
  • Figurehead: woman in yellow dress
  • Two-piece bowsprit
  • Flies a Canadian and a BC Flag.

  • Brightly painted sides (unfortunately, similar to Lady Washington)

    Pacific Swift, built for Expo 86 (1986), is a replica of a 1778 brig. She has logged over 100,000 nautical miles on trips to Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Pitcairn and Easter Island.

Hawaiian Chieftain

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length103.75
beam22
height75
draft5.5
displacement210
sailarea4200
built1988
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Designer: Raymond H. Richards
Builder: Lahaina Welding Co, Maui HI (1988)
Home Port: Gray's Harbor WA
Mainmast is square-rigged, with the aft mast shorter and gaff-rigged Help quadrilateral sail attached at the top to a gaff. (Technically Hawaiian Chieftain is a "Gaff-Rigged Topsail Ketch Wikipedia Where the taller mast (Mainmast) is in front"). Blue waterline.

  • Aft mast is shorted and gaff-rigged Help quadrilateral sail attached at the top to a gaff