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As an aside, two other comments about the historical nature of this craft. First, this is actually a boat as it was never designed to make ocean passage, and two masted craft of any type are generally not ships. I haven't yet changed that in the article because the more esoteric difference between a
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define it as a ship. If something definitive can't be found, ship should be changed to boat in the article. If you are from Norway, you might have an easy time looking this up. Secondly, boats that have been used in the cargo trade that were rigged as schooners are frequently re-rigged as ketches
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sail plan. Other examples of this are when a barque later in life is re-rigged as a barquentine or a cutter is re-rigged as a sloop (which entails moving the mast). It doesn't matter how it was built, one cannot say that the sail plan is still for a schooner if the foremast height has been made
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Thank you for the information. Could you please name your source that defines as an absolute that "When a boat has two masts and the foremast is taller, this is so." --
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It was built as schooner and still is a schooner, regardless the length of the foremast. By the way, I lived and worked on this boat for several years.
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