365-367

[Shacklepin]

Slight confusion reigns, Somebody Please clarify
The Pearson 365 is a Ketch and the 367 is a Cutter which Mr. Shaw himself designed by modifying a 365. He achieved this by eliminating the mizzen, moving the mast aft and increasing its height, he also added another foot in depth to the keel. Which was all in the name of speed
I understand some people have removed the mizzen and call the boat a sloop and others call their Cutters 365's which is where my confusion comes in. A 365 Ketch without a mizzen is still a 365 Ketch though it looks like a sloop, adding a stay-sail does introduce cutter qualities but is it a cutter, would it have running back stays........am I wrong? Comments please.

Ebb Tide is a 36ft Cutter Hull No #36 and proud to be one of only 50 ever built.........OK so I am a Snob. I have the best boat in the world.......or she will be when she's finished.   

[Dale Tanski]

Shacklepin,

I would say that the 367 was designed with the taller rig and deeper fin to increase the boats pointing ability, not so much the speed.  A ketch that no longer has the mizzen is no longer a ketch, it would be a sloop. What classifies the boat as a ketch is that the mizzen mast is forward of the rudder post. If the mizzen mast was aft of the rudder post, it would be a yawl. 

The sloop version of the boat is the cutter rig version without the inner staysail.  Both the cutter rig and the ketch with the inner staysail have check stays which run from the deck to the attachment point on the mast where the inner head stay attaches.  These check stays are adjustable just like the split backstays on the mizzen of the ketch. The downwind stay is slacked when off of the wind to allow the boom to ease out.

Dale Tanski

[Randy]

and I have an original sloop, which I believe Mr. Shaw increased mast height and boom length.

[SailingSeaDragon]

This might help

There are differences between the ketch, sloop, & cutter, some small, some significant AND of course there are ketch without the mizzen.

http://www.sailingseadragon.com/Specs.htm

Garner