I did a cursory search through the archives but couldn't find anything. Does anybody know anything about this cat. It was recently placed in the mast-up storage area in Marina Del Rey in California. A local cat sailor suggested it was designed in the 60s by famed surfers Phil Edwards and Mickey Munoz. It is approx. 25' 10" long and in very good shape.







Thanks,

Bill

Redondo Beach, Ca.

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Bill
Nacra 5.5 SL
Redondo Beach, CA
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looks a bit like cat that came up in discussion some time ago that had some link to hobie...?

Given the shape of the bowline and deck, my first thoughts are its a Dick Newick
design. A famous multihull designer from California. Check out his work here;
http://www.wingo.com/newick/about.html

Regards André

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Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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What the heck is these **** ?? Its the man's name !

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Tornado (80's Reg White)
Prindle 18-2 (sold)
Dart 16 (hired and hooked)
13 mtr steel cutter (sold)
Etap 22, unsinkable sailing pocket cruiser.

Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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it's the automatic, family safe, software setting;o)

if you try to say male chicken, as in weather****, it also kicks in

What?

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Damon Linkous
1992 Hobie 18
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How To Create Your Own Cool Avatar

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Shouldn't catamarans be considered as porn ?
I mean what's life without a ******18-2 or a ****** 5.2 or what about
Damon's *****18****** ?

Grtz, André



Edited by catmodding on Dec 31, 2012 - 03:00 AM.

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Tornado (80's Reg White)
Prindle 18-2 (sold)
Dart 16 (hired and hooked)
13 mtr steel cutter (sold)
Etap 22, unsinkable sailing pocket cruiser.

Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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There are quite a few innocuous words that also have slang connotations that are auto banned. I asked Damon about one a few years ago, & he manually took it of the shit list.
One work around, to borrow from Monty Python, is to substitute words, such as Biggus Dikkus

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so when beachcat tacking in strong winds

one must be careful not to let the main weatherdik the hulls "into irons"

hey it works!

happy new year all, stopped snowing here and started raining...

Back on topic, who designed that cat ? I am curious.

Grtz , André

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Tornado (80's Reg White)
Prindle 18-2 (sold)
Dart 16 (hired and hooked)
13 mtr steel cutter (sold)
Etap 22, unsinkable sailing pocket cruiser.

Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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It's mentioned specifically in this thread:

http://www.boatdesign.net…ls/what-cat-26483-2.html

Sailed and possibly designed by Phil Edwards.

This article:

http://articles.orlandose…tamaran-design-multihull

seems to back up the idea that it was designed by Edwards.

Any chance you can catch the owner with the boat at some point? It'd be cool to find out who's sailing it these days!

Tom

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Tom Benedict
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Wow.....that's some great sleuth work, Tom!! I think you have found it!! Next time I'm at the marina with my camera I'll take some pictures of El Gato from the same angles posted in your article.

If Bill was offering a prize for identifying it.....I believe the prize would be yours! Very Impressive work, thank you!!

Tom, I just got back from sailing in the Caribbean, so this is my first check on recent posts. I read your articles and the information contained is interesting. Since Jeff's P-Cat is only about 100 feet away from El Gato in the mast-up storage, next time we are there we will leave a message for the present owner. I am sure he should know a fair amount about the boat's history.

Bill

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Bill
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Hey Bill and Tom....

Maybe everyone else has already noticed this, but the El Gato Cat in Marina del Rey is the very same cat in the pictures you showed us, Tom, in your link on www.boatdesign.net....as verified by its CF number!