4. Maximum Sail Area – 300sqft: Y In any configuration.
5. 1 or more Crew: Y
6. Everything else open: Y
I have designed, built and successfully campained an excellent 14ft/4.3m cat here in Australia which has a 7.5m (27ft 7ins) mast height to carry what I considered the minimum sail to make a 14ft unirig boat powerful enough to be exciting. 24ft is just not tall enough and I wonder why you would put this debilitating limit on an otherwise extremely worthwhile exercise. Bern Leslie Builder: Peter Skews Shipwright Services (layup) Designer: Bern Leslie Length: 14ft nom. / 4.3m [LWL] Beam: 7ft.10in / 2.4m Displacement: 107lbs / 75kg Sail area: main: 145sqft / 13.5sqm Spinnaker: TBA Mast Height: 24ft 7ins. / 7.5m Construction materials: Hull; Epoxy / ‘e’glass / carbon foam sandwich. Mast and front beam; 50x120mm (2"x5") wing section chemically milled alum. Sail; Cairns Mylar. Photo's available on request.
