A cat boat is one that is cat-rigged, that is to say with its mast stepped well forward in the bows. It is also more often than not gaff or lugg rigged.
These boats are particularly handy in calm waters such as the lagoons of tropical islands where they fish or tend traps, act as ferries, or run small cargoes ashore from visiting schooners.
It is believed that the sail plan and possibly also the hull design of this boat is decended from small boats carried by British merchantmen that traded with the West Indies in the eighteenth century.
This boat was presented by the government of the Cayman Islands.
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Unknown
Fishing
Cat Boat
1940's
Cayman Islands
Unknown
Length
17 ft 2 in
Width
3 ft 9 in
