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The G-Cat 5.7 is a recreational sailboat, built predominantly of fiberglass. It has a fractional sloop rig with a fully battened mainsail , a rotating mast and all- aluminum spars. The symmetrical hulls have raked stems , vertical transoms and transom-hung, kick-up rudders controlled by a tiller .
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
Nacra Sailing was founded by sailboat designer Tom Roland who had previously designed the Alpha Cat, an 18-foot beach cat, in 1970. After this he designed a 36-foot, oversized one design beach catamaran as part of venture to start a professional sailboat racing series. About 10 of these were built, but the racing series didn't turn out to be ...
The Polynesian Concept is a recreational sailing catamaran, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim.It has a masthead sloop rig with double spreaders.The hulls have raked stems, reverse transoms, dual transom-hung rudders controlled by a tiller and twin retractable daggerboards.
Hobie Alter sold the Hobie Cat Company to the Coleman Company in 1975. In 1982, Coast Catamaran (The official name of the Hobie Cat Company at that time) bought dinghy company Vagabond and its line of dinghy designs from Ron Holder and produced a series of dinghies (Hobie Hawk, Hobie Holder 12, Hobie Holder 14, Hobie Holder 17 & Hobie Holder 20) and monohulls in the 1980s and 1990s, including ...
Hobie Getaway hull detail Hobie Getaway. The Getaway is a small recreational catamaran, with the dual hulls built of rotomolded polyethylene.It has a fractional sloop rig, including a roller furling jib and a full-batten mainsail, dual transom-hung rudders and no keel or daggerboards.
The Bravo is a recreational sailboat, with the dual hulls and cockpit made from rotomolded polyethylene and an aluminum rotating mast, supported by a bi-pod instead of standing wire rigging. It has a single square-topped, roller furling sail, a catboat rig with no boom and a mast-top mounted float to prevent turtling , that also acts as a wind ...
Introduced in 1971, [1] the Hobie 16 is the second largest boat fleet in existence with over 135,000 boats built to date. [4] The boat is distinctly recognized for its asymmetric "banana" shaped hulls, designed to work without the need for daggerboards so the catamaran could be run up the beach without worry. The rudders kick up automatically ...