Smack ship (Smakschip)

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The smak is an old ship type from the 18th and early 19th centuries , originally from the Netherlands . The smak was a light vessel for coastal navigation. Most smaks could carry around 60 tons of cargo, but the largest examples could carry up to 200 tons.
The hull was rounded fore and aft, and the bottom was rather flat. Like many Dutch ships, a smack was equipped with two leeboards . The ship had a small cabin with a skipper's cabin, crew quarters, and galley .
Smacks were usually two-masters with a large foremast and a smaller mizzen mast . Originally, smacks carried spritsails on both masts, but later gaff sails were increasingly used. The foremast with sprit or gaff carried the mainsail and sometimes also the topsail and staysail . The bowsprit was used to run two jibs . The mizzen mast carried a single mizzen . Because the mizzen mast was positioned just in front of the stern, the mizzen extended behind the vessel. The sheet of the mizzen ran via the parrot pole .
The smack was originally a Dutch ship, but later it also became common in Germany . Smacks sailed in the area from the Iberian Peninsula on one side to Norway on the other, but their main area of use was along the North Sea and Baltic Sea coasts .
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Source: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smak.