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First Reading

Sjoerd  •  Link

A "bezaan" is a type of sail that is attached to the mast at one end, with a small wooden "gaffel" at the top and a longer "giek" at the bottom.
It is called "gaff-rigged" in english, which shows these terms were quite international.

The "Mary", which was presented by the Dutch East India Compagny to Charles the same year, had "square rigging".

The rigging of modern sail yachts looks more like the Bezan.

There's an interesting list of Charles Yachts at http://www2.friend.ly.net/~dadada…

Pedro  •  Link

Bezan v Jamie.

From Antonia Fraser...

The Royal brothers took to racing their craft against each other with zest...There was a race between the dutch-built Bezan and the King's yacht Jamie (named for Monmouth), which the former easily won.

Terry Foreman  •  Link

BEZAAN

The Bezaan was a Dutch pleasure yacht built in 1630 and presented to King Charles II by the Dutch East India Company. The Bezaan was about 15 feet long with a single mast and carried a crew of two, and was the precursor of modern leisure yachts. http://www.probertencyclopaedia.c…

Second Reading

Bill  •  Link

The fleet had another addition this year [1661] in the Bezan, a small yacht; length of keel, 34 feet; breadth, 14 feet; depth, 7 feet; draught, 3 feet 6 inches; she came from Holland and was given to the King by the Dutch, but exactly by whom, is not recorded.
---The History of Yachting,1600-1815. Arthur Hamilton Clark, 1904.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The…, p.66.

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