on the U. S. Eastern Seaboard, in Texas, on Lake Pymatuning (along the 

 Pennsylvania-Ohio border), and on various other lakes. 



As reported by Tiger Tails (oJBBcial publication of the Association), dur- 

 ing 1961 Tiger Cats won six out of the seven "open" regattas in the Eastern 

 United States and Canada in which they participated. At the National 

 Championship twenty-five Tiger Cats took part, making by far the largest 

 group of one-design catamarans up to that time ever to cross a single 

 starting line in the United States. 



The Tiger Cat hulls are identical, rounded, and narrow in section, fine 

 forward but with fairly round sections aft. Like other leading catamarans, 

 they are fitted with twin pivoting centerboards, twin rudders, and full- 

 length battens in the mainsail. A feature is a cockpit tent which serves as a 

 portable cabin. This is obtainable from Hard Sails, Inc. (204 Main St., 

 Islip, N.Y.). 



Following the success of the wooden Tiger cat at Miami, the construction 

 of a class of these boats was assigned exclusively to the Pearson Corporation 

 of Bristol, Rhode Island, where, in May 1876, Nathanael Herresholf had 

 launched his famous catamaran, Amaryllis. The boats are built from two 

 molds of fiber glass throughout with a vinyl rub rail on a flange which is 

 widened forward to form integral spray deflectors on both sides of both 

 hulls. The mast, boom, and jib luffspar are of aluminum alloy and grooved 

 to hold the sail bolt ropes. Both mast and luffspar rotate. The cockpit is 

 self-bailing, as water drains through the centerboard boxes. Price, including 

 Dacron mainsail with full-length battens, jib, and toe-straps, is $2511. Used 

 boats cost $2000 to $2200; there are no kits. 



VITAL statistics: L.O.A. 17'; watcrlinc is'io''; beam y'lii/^'"; 

 beam of each hull at waterline 1^3%''; draft without centerboards 7^/2 ''> 

 with boards 3'i"; sail area 235 sq. ft.; weight 585 lbs.; racing crew, two. 



TIKI II 



Designed by Robert B. Harris, the Tiki II is a new boat at the time of 

 writing, with fifteen already built and many more expected. The earlier 

 Tiki, of which eighty-six boats were built, is no longer in production. The 

 builder of Tiki II is the Catamaran Corporation of America ( 2324 Summit, 

 Kansas City 8, Mo.). So far, the principal areas of saihng are at Kansas 

 City, Missouri; Wichita, Kansas; and Spofford Lake, New Hampshire. For 

 information about the class, write David Halperin (4812 Black Swan Drive, 

 Shawnee, Kan.). 



The boat is of molded fiber glass, including the self -bailing cockpit, which 



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