What is "catboats"

Usage examples of "catboats".

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.

Wooden docks had been extended from the bank, but these held mainly small catboats, lugboats, and catamarans.

My father told me once I'd foundered more catboats than anybody my age and weight.

They used to stick us in catboats and make us whip back and forth on the Severn and learn knots and rigs and spars.

Beyond the pier, fishermen in their small catboats pulled their nets and sailors navigated their brightly colored catamarans away from land.

Whole bright days of spring and early summer they spent out in Roke Bay in light catboats, practising steering by word, and stilling waves, and speaking to the world’s wind, and raising up the magewind.