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Stanley
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Beautiful photos of the classic catboat. For those not familiar with the term, a catboat is a sailboat with no foresail, only mainsail. I used to sail a modern catboat myself for many years, the Freedom 21, designed by Garry Hoyt in Rhode Island.I had an opportunity to be a passenger on a friend's boat to follow and photograph a majestic sail boat referred to here in southern NJ as "A Cat" boats.
Thank you Jorgen for the explanation. I am a real novice when it comes to sailing. The old timers here on Long Beach Island NJ have said they were developed to bring people, building materials, and provisions from the main land to the island here, across the bay, before there was a railroad bridge/causeway, and later an automobile causeway. I was told they were very wide and stable, and perfectly suited to the purpose.Beautiful photos of the classic catboat. For those not familiar with the term, a catboat is a sailboat with no foresail, only mainsail. I used to sail a modern catboat myself for many years, the Freedom 21, designed by Garry Hoyt in Rhode Island.
Quite right, they are wide and stable, mostly with relatively flat bottoms and often with a lifting keel, enabling them to navigate very shallow waters or be beached when needed. The lack of a foresail makes them easy to handle and fast to tack for a single-handed crew, although they can't sail as close to the wind as a conventional sailboat with a foresail, so they need more tacks to get to the destination when sailing upwind. This is particularly problematic when sailing upstream and upwind on rivers. Still, they have been very common on large rivers like Hudson River. Downwind they are faster than anything under sail, since it's easy to expose the entire area of the large mainsail squarely to the wind, resulting in some great surfing and wild rides up and down the wavesThank you Jorgen for the explanation. I am a real novice when it comes to sailing. The old timers here on Long Beach Island NJ have said they were developed to bring people, building materials, and provisions from the main land to the island here, across the bay, before there was a railroad bridge/causeway, and later an automobile causeway. I was told they were very wide and stable, and perfectly suited to the purpose.
Best regards, and thanks again
Dave
LBI, NJ