Wishbone rig Wishbone rig A wishbone rig is a type of rigging on sailboats. This rigging is most popular on heavy two-masted vessels. On a ketch it is called wishbone ketch and is considered a subtype of ketch rigging. A wishbone ketch rigged vessel is a vessel that is rigged as a ketch where a permanent splitting gaff is mounted between two masts. Contrary to the gaff rig (where the gaff is hoisted together with the sail) the gaff stays in the mast. The gaff is typically fixed on the first mast (the one closer to the front) and fixed via a
Jack Ketch took his place, but on 28 May, following his conviction for robbery, Rose himself was hanged at Tyburn and Ketch reinstated. Ketch died in November 1686. In 1836 a fictitious autobiography of Ketch, with illustrations from designs by Meadows entitled "The autobiography of Jack Ketch", was published. Another book entitled "Life of Jack Ketch with Cuts of his own Execution" was furnished by Tom Hood for the Duke of Devonshire's library at Chatsworth. Jack Ketch is one of the characters in Giovanni Piccini (d.1835) "The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Punch and Judy" as dictated to John Payne Collier,