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The expression, fishing or oyster 

 Oyster Smacks. smack> may be re g ar ded as a general 



description of the two classes of the decked sailing vessel 



A Whitstable Yawl. 



employed in the fisheries. The vessel called at Whitstable 

 a yawl is the most common, being a clinker-built boat, with 

 overhanging counter, of from 10 to 25 tons burden. She is 

 cutter-rigged, having a boomed mainsail, a topsail, foresail, 

 and jib, though by rights yawl-rig is incomplete without a 

 mizzen-mast and sail. This is the class of vessel which the 

 old smugglers used. The other and far less numerous class 

 of boat is called a borlev. She is chieflv distinguished from 



