Cat-Ketch?

[Dr PR]

I am curious what this rig is called:

 

 

Looking through Harold Underhill's Sailing Ship Rigs & Rigging (Brown, Son and Ferguson, Glasgow, 1969) it looks like a "cat boat" with an extra shorter mizzen mast (ketch). He shows a "sailing lifeboat" with a similar ketch rig, but it has a fore staysail, the fore sail is loose footed and the mizzen sail is four-sides and has a spar like the fore sail. He also has a drawing of a "sailing canoe" with a similar rig except the mizzen sail is four-sided like the fore sail. A "fishing lugger" has sails similar to the sailing canoe.

Edited May 19, 2024 by Dr PR

[wefalck]

Do things always have to have names? Sometimes people just make something that seems useful to them, without thinking that someone else wants to 'classify' it.

 

It's an unusual rig anyway, with a lug that has boom etc.

[druxey]

And check out the reef points!

[ccoyle]

I'm not an expert by any stretch on smallcraft rigs, but a cursory internet search of the terms 'cat-ketch' and 'cat-yawl' turns up a lot of images with rigs that are essentially identical, so maybe we're not the only ones who are confused.

[Dr PR]

I like the reef points too.

 

I think Wefalck may be right. This boat was on the Yaquina River upstream from the harbor at Newport, Oregon, an old (for the west coast) fishing town. There are a lot of old salts there and I like to think this guy just cobbled up his own rig.