Big Cat Ketch

[Steve Day]

Anybody see the 65' Cat Ketch rig in the October "Sailing" magazine?

Seems Tom Wylie has built a rather large testimonial to the simplicity of the cat ketch rig.

The article is on page 21.

Grahame, I would be interested in your comments on that.

Steve

[Rob Blackburn]

Would it be possible to scan the article in and post it?

Our CS20 goes in the water a week today after all the paint drys hopefully..

Getting to the sleepless stage.

Rob

[Designer]

Steve, I don't often see Sailing magazine. I know Tom Wylie has done some cat ketches and he is a very competent designer so I'm sure his 65 will be a good boat. I am not sure if it is the size of the boat that has piqued your interest but there is nothing wrong with the scale of the boat that sound engineering can't solve.

Rob, I am getting excited for you and looking forward to hearing of your launching next week.

[Rob Blackburn]

A 65 footer would require a lot of fibreglass tape and epoxy would it not?

[Steve Day]

This is the first time I have seen the cat ketch in such a large boat, and that certainly piqued my interest a bit. The other thing is to see a boat that large with free standing masts. I'm sure I've never heard of that.

I am relatively new to the concept of the cat ketch, so these boats caught my eye.

Right now, I'm just happy working on my Spindrift 10N. 8)

Steve

[Rob Blackburn]

I put a link up to a copy of an old english yachting article on cat ketches and here is the link again.

http://homepage.mac.com/blackburns/filechute/CAT-KETCH%20Folder.zip

It will stay up for 7 days. Click to download. It is in pdf format.

Rob