Talk:Yawl

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Gipsy Moth IV is linked to as a yawl, but the target article classifies it as a ketch.

You need to also consider the S&S designs Dorade and Stormy Weather. Dorade was a ground breaking design in the development of the ocean racing yacht and further improved in the later Stormy Weather design which had a long and successful career in Atlantic races including the Fastnet.

Yawl is also considered to have derived from the Scandanvian word also giving the type Yole as in the Shetland types. I understand this to mean just 'small boat'. These would have traditionally been double ended and lug rigged. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.33.199.76 (talk) 13:09, 3 January 2008 (UTC)