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The boat was built by Catalina Yachts in the United States starting in 1971 and was also built under licence in Canada by Cooper Enterprises. In the first three years of production, 1,500 boats were completed and sold. A total of 6,662 examples were completed. [1] [5] [6] The design was replaced in production by the Catalina 270 in 1991. [1]
The first true ocean-going boats were invented by the Austronesian peoples, using technologies like multihulls, outriggers, crab claw sails, and tanja sails. This enabled the rapid spread of Austronesians into the islands of both the Indian and the Pacific Oceans, known as the Austronesian expansion.
Cheeki Rafiki was a Bénéteau First 40.7 sailing yacht. The yacht lost her keel in the Atlantic Ocean about 720 nautical miles (1,330 km; 830 mi) southeast of Nova Scotia, Canada, and subsequently capsized. Rescue services found her upturned hull before it sank but the crew – four English men – were never found.
This is a list of notable sailboat designers and manufacturers, which are described by an article in English Wikipedia. Sailboat design and manufacturing is done by a number of companies and groups. Notable designers
Although the Catalina brand was built upon sailboats, the recently acquired True North line of outboard motor yachts is the company focus today. After the passing of founder Frank Butler, his former secretary and longtime close personal friend, Sharon Day, was appointed president, chief engineer, head of marine design and CEO by the Butler family.
Drift from Barbados to St Lucia and Jamaica with providers including Fred Olsen and Sea Cloud Cruises
Hunter Marine was an American boat builder, now known as Marlow-Hunter, LLC, owned by David E. Marlow.The company did produce the Mainship powerboat brand. Marlow also owns and manufactures the Marlow Yachts brand consisting of long range power cruisers in the 37 to 110 foot range.
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