Colonist (1861) Reef with two carpenters as well as caulkers and riggers. At this stage they had already partially succeeded in getting the vessel off the reef. By November the ketch had again returned from the wreck site with cargo from both the "Colonist" as well as the "Douglas", and the scene was described as: that masts and yards as well as hull of the Colonist are as sound as the day she was built She has been thoroughly caulked from keel to covering board, and is now quite tight, her rigging has been refitted and sails bent The tides have been
Ketch Sir Francis Chichester's earlier "Gypsy Moth" ketches had five staysails (each of almost equal size), none of which were boomed. If a ketch has no jibs, it is called a "cat ketch" or a "periauger". On older, larger ketches the main mast may in addition carry one or more square rigged topsails. The square-rigged ketch was largely supplanted by the brig, which differs from the ketch by having a forward mast smaller (or occasionally similar in size) than the after mast, and by the hoy, which was fore-and-aft rigged. Other similar craft include the snow and the pink. Both the