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smack This is the type of popular (1800's) British fishing vessel whose response to the wind and waves were used as a standard in the original Beaufort scale. I had the specs on this once, but misplaced them. I believe it was a 30-foot, double-ended, open-deck sailing vessel, with a gaff-rigged main. A sailor might look at the discussion of each beaufort force number and piece together what kind of vessel would respond that way.

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