15' Marsh Cat Catboat
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Join to view PDF Purchase 15' Marsh Cat PlansCatboat owners tend to be a pretty devoted bunch and will seldom countenance any disparaging remarks on the type. There are some good reasons for their affection. Foot for foot, it would be hard to find a bigger boat than a catboat.The great beam that provides all that room makes a catboat sail on her feet-having lunch while sailing is not such a scramble. For those who enjoy relaxed sailing rather than fiddling with lines, a catboat's single, self-tending sail will be just the thing. And then there are submerged rocks and ledges to be avoided and, here too, the catboat excels, for with such shallow draft you can usually see an underwater obstruction before there is any threat.
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