six watertight compartments giving nine hundred pounds of buoyancy. As 

 in the case of other catamarans, the jib is set on a revolving luflFspar and 

 can be quickly furled. The price is $2664, including Dacron mainsail and 



jib. 



VITAL STATISTICS: L.O.A. iS'g''; waterline 1/11"; beam /ii"; 

 draft without centerboards /', with boards 2'ii"; sail area 267 sq. ft. (spin- 

 naker permitted); weight 540 lbs. 



SCAMPER 



The Scamper was designed by George W. Patterson as a small, simple, 

 lightweight catamaran, easy for one person to sail, and trailable. The build- 

 ers are the Patterson Catamaran Corporation (25 Diaz St., Stamford, 

 Conn.) and Marine and Industrial Fiberglass Products, Ltd. (P. O. Box 6, 

 Lachine, Quebec, Canada). "Our racing record against other cats in our 

 class range," Mr. Patterson reports, "is an excellent one: division II winner 

 Eastern Multihull Regatta 1961; division II winner and over-all winner on 

 elapsed time of all boats 14' and under at Sea Cliff Invitational Catamaran 

 Regatta 1962. Besides being a small high-performance racing cat, the 

 Scamper sails and handles well with a crew weight of over 300 pounds for 

 just plain sailing fun. 



"Incidentally," adds Mr. Patterson, "after the Sea Cliff Regatta, two 

 Scampers were sailed across the Sound from Sea Cliff to Stamford, a dis- 

 tance of close to 18 miles, at an average speed of 10 m.p.h., which is not 

 bad, in choppy water, for a little 12-foot boat." 



A class association has been formed, with headquarters care of Patter- 

 son (133 Buttery Rd., New Canaan, Conn.). 



The Scamper is produced in a sloop rig, with the usual twin center- 

 boards and rudders which tilt up. The number built at the time of writing 

 is thirty-three, most of which are on Long Island Sound. Hulls are of fiber 

 glass, decks and cockpit of marine plywood. Price complete with sails is 

 $955; in kit form it costs $735. 



VITAL STATISTICS: L.O.A. 12'; watcrlinc ii'6''; beam 6'; draft 

 without centerboards 7", with boards 2'2"; sail area 90 sq. ft.; weight 

 (fully rigged) 165 lbs.; trailable. 



SHEARWATER III 



The i6y2-foot Shearwater is by far the largest class of catamarans in 

 the world. Since the first Shearwater took to the water in England, over 

 a thousand have been built, spread out among several countries, consti- 



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