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Cat or Cat Ketch Raised Deck 30' Motorsailer - We've done a number of sketches for this general type and will gradually add them here. The idea is that many people love sailing but are not young enough to really enjoy thrashing to windward. This vessel makes no pretense of more than mediocre performance to windward under sail. However she has plenty of sail area for off the wind work and a large controllable pitch feathering propellor to push her to windward. Also she does have enough draft in relation to her beam and length to be amply seaworthy even though she is quite shoal. Nowadays so many people don't really use their sail boats as they were intended. They are using very expensive complex sailing machines as motorboats whenever the wind isn't with them. This doesn't make a whole lot of sense when a much simpler less expensive boat can be used the same way.

Rough Sketch of a Cat Rigged Version of 30' Raised Deck Motorsailor. LOA 30', Beam 8', Draft 4'

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