Gartside 13' Catboat "Crisis" #246
Description
The Gartside 13' Catboat "Crisis" (Design #246) is a compact, traditional-inspired plywood daysailer and tender designed by renowned wooden boat designer Paul Gartside in the 1980s, offering timeless lines and straightforward performance for coastal gunkholing, family outings, or as a yacht tender, with its unstayed gaff cat rig providing simple, responsive handling in light to moderate winds. Ideal for first-time builders due to its forgiving stitch-and-glue construction, it emphasizes durability and ease of maintenance using affordable, readily available materials, and while not extensively documented in builds, it's praised in forums for its artistic plans and seaworthiness as a starter project. Plans consist of four sheets (36" x 24" rag vellum) including lofting details, priced at $170 USD from gartsideboats.com, with an estimated build time of 300 hours at a basic skill level.
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Blueprints
Sails
Gartside 13' Catboat "Crisis" #246 - STANDING LUGSAIL
| Luff | 7.25 ft - (2210 mm) |
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| Foot | 10.667 ft - (3251 mm) |
| Leech | 17 ft - (5182 mm) |
| Tack Angle | * 76.88 ° |
| Diag (clew/throat) | 11.667 ft - (3556 mm) |
| Head | 11.083 ft - (3378 mm) |
| Area | * 81.12 ft² |
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