Synonyms of ketch

ketch

noun

as in sloop

Related Words

• sloop
• schooner
• yawl
• yacht
• brigantine
• catamaran
• frigate
• lugger
• cutter
• catboat
• shallop
• sailer
• galley
• pinnace
• galleon
• keelboat
• clipper
• caravel
• outrigger
• corvette
• sailboat
• junk
• sharpie
• knockabout
• dinghy
• square-rigger
• xebec
• piragua
• bark
• bugeye
• windjammer
• cat rig
• caïque
• vessel
• craft
• bottom

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of ketch

The Panamax ketch features a sleek aluminum exterior, with a displacement hull and a distinctive pointed bow. — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 July 2025

And through such buffetings Constance’s little ketch had run aground. — Jim Shepard, New Yorker, 8 June 2025

One 203-feet sailing ketch called Simena which will have an on-deck Jacuzzi, six guest cabins and ample exterior deck spaces. — Katia Damborsky, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025

The vessel’s 328-foot submersible aft deck—a feature that first attracted her new owner, who uses OK to transport their 150-foot ketch—is now covered in a carpet of artificial grass. — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 8 Apr. 2024

Perkins had amassed a fleet of vessels over a 25-year period that included the 141-foot Perini Navi Andromeda la Dea, a 154-foot ketch of the same name, and the Herreshoff classic Mariette of 1915. — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 23 Feb. 2024

That made Sir Robin, as he’s now known, the first person to complete a nonstop, single-handed circumnavigation, aboard his 32-foot ketch Suhaili. McIntyre, a former offshore racer, resurrected the 50th-anniversary rendition of the race in 2018. — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 17 July 2022

Now those waters—especially as plied aboard a traditional Turkish gulet or ketch (wooden sailing yacht)—are one of the world’s most popular sailing destinations, and a wish-list item for even wanna-be sailors. — Ann Abel, Forbes, 27 June 2022