CATBOAT GUIDE and SAILING MANUAL Collected from Web sites, articles, manuals, and forum postings Compiled and edited by: Edward Steinfeld [email protected] What I dream about. What fits my need best. ii Picnic cat by Com-Pac What I can trailer. Fisher Cat by Howard Boats iii Contents CATBOAT THESIS ...................................................................................................................1 MOORING AND DOCKING ...................................................................................................3 Docking ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 3 Docking and Mooring ............................................................................................................................................................. 4 Docking Lessons ...................................................................................................................................................................... 5 MENGER CAT 19 OWNER'S MANUAL ...............................................................................8 Stepping and Lowering the Tabernacle Mast ............................................................................................................... 8 Trailer Procedure ..................................................................................................................................................................... 9 Sailing Tips .............................................................................................................................................................................. 10 First Reef ............................................................................................................................................................................. 11 Second Reef ........................................................................................................................................................................ 12 TRIMMING THE SAIL .......................................................................................................... 13 How to get rid of Weather Helm?.................................................................................................................................... 13 Quick study guide.................................................................................................................................................................. 13 What I do to trim the sail is... .......................................................................................................................................... 14 Sail Trim .................................................................................................................................................................................... 14 Catboat Sail Trim ................................................................................................................................................................... 15 How ‘deep throat’ can give better performance in a single-sail, gaff-rigged boat ................................................ 15 Angle of attack ................................................................................................................................................................... 15 Draft ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 15 Twist ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 16 Trimming to conditions ..................................................................................................................................................... 16 Points of sail ........................................................................................................................................................................ 16 HEAVING-TO IN A CATBOAT ........................................................................................... 18 Family Cat ................................................................................................................................................................................ 18 Marshall Sanderling .............................................................................................................................................................. 18 Horizon Cat .............................................................................................................................................................................. 18 Sun Cat ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 19 RIGGING AND LAZY JACKS .............................................................................................. 20 Rigging Length of Line Chart - Sanderling .................................................................................................................. 20 Single Line Reefing ............................................................................................................................................................... 23 Description of Lazyjacks on Cat Nap.............................................................................................................................. 23 Another Sun Cat Lazy Jacks Installation ...................................................................................................................... 25 Still Another ............................................................................................................................................................................ 26 And Another Sun Cat Lazy Jack Installation ............................................................................................................... 27 Homemade Lazy Jacks ........................................................................................................................................................ 27 MAST AND SAIL RAISING TIPS ...................................................................................... 29 Raising the Sail (Com-Pac) ................................................................................................................................................ 29 iv Holding Course while Raising the Sail ........................................................................................................................... 30 Trimming the motor .......................................................................................................................................................... 31 Menger Tips ............................................................................................................................................................................. 31 To lower the sail: ............................................................................................................................................................... 31 As to reefing: ...................................................................................................................................................................... 31 REEFING – HOW AND WHY .............................................................................................. 32 TRAILERING ADVICE .......................................................................................................... 34 QUESTIONS ABOUT TRAILERING (PICNIC CAT) ..................................................... 35 Here are my thoughts. ........................................................................................................................................................ 35 AUTOPILOT/TILLERPILOT ............................................................................................... 37 ST1000 installed .................................................................................................................................................................... 37 Raymarine ST1000 & ST2000 Tillerpilots .................................................................................................................... 38 SUN CAT MAIN SHEET/TRAVELER RELOCATION ..................................................... 40 SWIM LADDER STEPS ........................................................................................................ 42 SCUPPERS .............................................................................................................................. 44 Water Coming In Through the Scuppers ...................................................................................................................... 44 Drain Tubes and Scuppers ................................................................................................................................................. 44 ANCHORS ................................................................................................................................ 45 SUN CAT STABILITY ........................................................................................................... 46 OUTBOARD VS. INBOARD ................................................................................................