The Pacific Catamaran or Pacific Cat is a

sailing Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the ''water'' (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ''ice'' (iceboat) or on ''land'' (land yacht) over a chosen cour ...

catamaran A Formula 16 beachable catamaran Powered catamaran passenger ferry at Salem, Massachusetts, United States A catamaran () (informally, a "cat") is a multi-hulled watercraft featuring two parallel hulls of equal size. It is a geometry-stab ...

capable of high speeds across open water. Pacific Catamaran01

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Newport Boats Lockley Newport Boats was an American boat builder based in Newport Beach, California. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of fiberglass sailboats.Henkel, Steve: ''The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats'', pages 172 & 2 ...

and

Mobjack Manufacturing Mobjack may refer to: *'' SS Mobjack'', a coastal steamship owned by the Old Dominion Steamship Company. *USS ''Mobjack'' (AVP-27), laid down as a United States Navy seaplane tender in 1942 but converted while under construction into motor torpedo ...

began building the Pacific Cat PC-19 in 1960. It has a

fiberglass Fiberglass (American English) or fibreglass (Commonwealth English) is a common type of fiber-reinforced plastic using glass fiber. The fibers may be randomly arranged, flattened into a sheet called a chopped strand mat, or woven into glass cloth ...

hull with fractional

sloop A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sa ...

standing rigging Standing rigging comprises the fixed lines, wires, or rods, which support each mast or bowsprit on a sailing vessel and reinforce those spars against wind loads transferred from the sails. This term is used in contrast to running rigging, whic ...

and

running rigging Running rigging is the rigging of a sailing vessel that is used for raising, lowering, shaping and controlling the sails on a sailing vessel—as opposed to the standing rigging, which supports the mast and bowsprit. Running rigging varies bet ...

. This sailboat did not have a cabin but rather a well for the comfort and safety of passengers. *Length: *Beam: 711 inches *Draft: 2 feet 11 inches *Sail area: *Displacement: 540 pounds

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Newport Sailboats
{{Lockley Newport Boats Catamarans Sailboat types built by Newport Boats Sailboat types built by Mobjack Manufacturing

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