Crossword clues for catboat
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Catboat \Cat"boat`\, n. (Naut.) A small sailboat, with a single mast placed as far forward as possible, carring a sail extended by a gaff and long boom. See Illustration in Appendix.
Wiktionary
n. A sailing boat with a single sail, usually rigged on a gaff spar, used for fishing in New England and later adapted for racing and cruising. Catboats can be recognized by a single mast set near to the bow and a long boom which may extend over the stern.
WordNet
n. a sailboat with a single mast set far forward
Wikipedia
A catboat (alternate spelling: cat boat), or a cat-rigged sailboat, is a sailing vessel characterized by a single mast carried well forward (typically near its bow). Generally a catboat has a light and shallow draft hull, wide beam approximately half its length, is gaff rigged, and carries a centreboard.
Although any boat with a single sail and a mast carried well forward is 'technically' a catboat, some catboats such as the Barnegat Bay type and more modern designs carry a Bermuda sail. A jib is sometimes added, but this may require a bowsprit, and technically creates a sloop sail-plan.
A typical New England style has a very long boom that extends over the transom and may carry foresails stayed from a bowsprit.
Usage examples of "catboat".
I allowed a PV crew to film me, tanned and fit, if thin, sailing our little catboat on the sea.
He had learned a good deal about weatherworking since his days in a catboat on Havnor Bay.
You and your mother were hosing down a catboat and calling for me to put it in the water.
A black-sailed catboat rolling heavily in the dark chop swung hard to shore.
Curiously, there was little to indicate that he spent most of his working days on or under the sea, except for a primitive painting of a clipper ship and a few other sailing vessels, a photo of his catboat under full sail and a glass-encased model of his racing hydroplane.
Queen Jelena continued to ignore Richius as her men led them both to a waiting catboat at the other end of the pier.
They were alone in the catboat, except for the rowers, yet neither of them spoke.
Some were small, like the catboat, while others were enormous, with ivory sails and brass figureheads and gleaming hulls fitted with saw-toothed rams.
Miss Faragon had taken her little catboat for a routine trip up the coast from Bodega Bay to Fort Ross, for the purposes of doing her weekly errands, and had failed to return at her usual time.
He pointed at Bob, who was staring out at the tiny white fin of a catboat, miles out on the smiling surface of the sea.
There the Captain, still firm in the belief that he is a sailor, loves to potter about with catboats and rafts.
Richius had wandered from his rooms and found himself on the mooring docks just outside the palace, watching the catboats slip in and out.
Out beyond the marshy little islands, where the lake was deep and the breeze blew unimpeded, were a pair of seven-meter catboats that bore no resemblance to any of the craft launched by the escapees.
Alex sat back in his rocker, listening to the chief, and admiring the pretty little cove filled with sturdy-looking lobster boats, and small gaff-rigged sloops, and catboats riding at their moorings.
Wooden docks had been extended from the bank, but these held mainly small catboats, lugboats, and catamarans.