Catboats

Devereux Books, 1996. Minor bumping to the edges of the covers. Contents tight and clean with no inscriptions or markings.

Cape Cod and in New Jersey, these boats were shallow-draft centerboards with a single, huge sail and a mast stepped right in the bow. Simple in design, able to work difficult, shoal waters, catboats became a staple of working fishermen right up to World War II. By 1890, the frindly catboat was exposing many people to their first sailing experience and also becoming popular with a generation of yachtsmen for exciting racing. Today, wooden catboats are restored by devoted owners and thousands of sailors cruise and race in fiberglass models.