They were accompanied by the sloop "Mary" and two ketches. Many of the smaller ports were visited only by coastal ketches and schooners. In earlier years such produce was exported from Cowell by means of sailing ketches. It is used on single-masted sloops and twin-masted boats such as yawls and ketches. A survey of cruising sailors identified preferences for sloops, cutters, and ketches in equal measure. Early bomb vessels were rigged as ketches with two masts. The normal rig configuration was a cutter, with a few rigged as cutters/ketches. These were loaded from the ketches which were in turn loaded at the jetty. At 22&colon;00, four bomb ketches began to shell the town. Giles Jenkins built 10 vessels, mostly ketches, at Davistown between 1876 and 1889. Swedish variants had two masts and were rigged as ketches or sometimes as schooners. On 9 October 1803, "Atalante" pursued two ketches and a brig at Saint Gildas Point. Records from Salem, Maine reported 20 ketches stolen and destroyed in one raid. From the loading platform, ketches could moor at Weeroona Island at high tide.