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are ketch rigged Double Enders with rudder outside that can easily be unshipped and provided with a tiller that can be slipped out. 
[[image: drawing of ship with 2 masts and 3 sails and tiller at stern]] 
They have no bowsprit but a [[strikethrough]] bow [[/strikethrough]] stay sail which is rigged on the fore-stay 
The mizzen has a boom, but is loosefooted. The Mainsail is boomless and has a long almost upright gaff and the sail is nearly square so that the clew is almost right angle.
[[image: drawing showing sail as described with blocks labeled]]
The sheet of the mainsail is rove thru the clew and then back and forward thru block and the first reef cringle so as 
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to distribute better the pull of the sheet
One man tells me the small sponge [[strikethrough]] schooners costs [[/strikethrough]] ^[[sloops]] have a value of $600 to $1000 but cost about three times as much new. Schooners stay out on the sponging fields 4 to 6 weeks and bring in a catch of [[strikethrough]] from [[/strikethrough]] value from £300 to £400, others about one half as much (about 15 to 20 men) 
Some sloop rigged motor boats have a wide hunting cabin very much on the shape of our cat-boats, and very [[beamy?]], and a short bowsprit rather flat. But from the waist on to the stern the boats taper out to the shape of a double ender. The fore half of the boat is decked with a hunting cabin, the rear end makes a wide cockpit with a gunwale coming around