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RE. schooners. These boats sat very low in the water also.. especially when loaded with 100 tons of grain or wood. They in general were not very tender at all. BTW. most of them only sailed downwind also., In fact they needed huge amounts of ballast in the hold,.. usually just rock, ( in the absence of cargo...) the ballast was dumped in the harbors prior to loading. in fact here in philadelphia and the delaware river, these huge piles of ballast on the sea/river floor form the best places to fish nowadays.. ...many of us have "rockpile coordinates" in our gps .
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