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On The Water
Photos of our P-Cat, Smilodon, on the water
Date: 06/18/2012
Owner: Tom Benedict
Size: 4 items
Views: 1914
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Hulls
Photos of work done on our hulls
Date: 05/07/2012
Owner: Tom Benedict
Size: 5 items
Views: 1433
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Details Minor and Major
A set of photos covering the myriad little things
Date: 04/25/2012
Owner: Tom Benedict
Size: 8 items
Views: 1574
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Running Rigging
Running rigging of the Pacific Catamaran (P-Cat)
Date: 04/21/2012
Owner: Tom Benedict
Size: 4 items
Views: 1835
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Rudders
Photos of the reconstruction of the rudder and tiller assembly
Date: 04/18/2012
Owner: Tom Benedict
Size: 6 items
Views: 1240
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Technical Tips
Oddball tips for doing stuff on a boat
Date: 04/13/2012
Owner: Tom Benedict
Size: 1 item
Views: 896
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Sails
Photos of work done on our sails
Date: 04/13/2012
Owner: Tom Benedict
Size: 3 items
Views: 982
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Trailer
Various photos from refurbishing the trailer we got with our Pacific Cat
Date: 04/13/2012
Owner: Tom Benedict
Size: 7 items
Views: 1545
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Pacific-Catamaran-Telltales
This diagram indicates where I'm planning to put telltales on the sails of my boat.
Date: 04/01/2012
Views: 2062
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Traveler
This photo shows the 3:1 traveler sheeting system, reassembled to the best of my ability.
There's a bail on each of the cheek blocks on the traveler car. A line runs from that to the sheave located under the track, back up to the cheek...
Date: 03/27/2012
Views: 1464
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Name Plate
The manufacturer's plate from my Pacific Catamaran. Hull number 361.You can see the state of the rivets, and some of the cracking in the gel coat. The underlying fiberglass doesn't feel soft. (I had a Hobie 14 with soft hulls, and this is nothing e
Date: 03/27/2012
Views: 1416
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Deck
The Pacific Cat 19 has a hard deck rather than a trampoline. This is one of the reasons this boat is almost 200 pounds heavier than a comparably sized trampoline cat. There's just a lot more glass there.One of the implications of this that didn't dawn
Date: 03/27/2012
Views: 2203
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Cockpit
A closer look at the cockpit, the boom downhaul, and the beach towels I used to keep the mast from banging the hull when I was setting up the standing rigging.On the right side of the image is the mast and boom. You can see the socket for the main hal
Date: 03/27/2012
Views: 1615
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Head-On
A head-on look at the Pacific Cat 19 with the mast up.
There are sockets at the aft end of the cockpit to take a support arm that'll hold up the boom when the sail is down. From the holes in the hull, it looks like there used to be sockets ...
Date: 03/27/2012
Views: 1477
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Gooseneck
The gooseneck on the Pacific Cat 19 is pretty standard. It ends in a steel trunnion roughly 4-6" long that fits into a socket on the boom. The boom can pivot around this trunnion for raising and lowering the mainsail.
Normally the main...
Date: 03/27/2012
Views: 1649
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Roller-Furler
This was my first experience with a roller furling foresail. All the hardware was in decent condition, and having the roller presented no problems in stepping the mast. But that pin at the bottom has got to go! We stepped it for the first time in fairly h
Date: 03/27/2012
Views: 1628
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Main-Winch
The Pacific Catamaran 19 has an unusual mast for a beach cat: It has an integral winch for the main halyard. Luckily the winch handle came with the boat, but fabricating a new one shouldn't be too tricky.
As you can see the main halyard has...
Date: 03/27/2012
Views: 1683
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Mast-Stepped
Most of the first week was spent sorting through the hardware to find out what we had. There were two sets of standing rigging with one roller furling forestay and one fixed forestay. Most of the blocks for the running rigging were shot, unfortunately. Re
Date: 03/27/2012
Views: 1587
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Pacific-Catamaran-001-Flickr
This is the state of the boat as we received it. The hulls are oxidized, the gel coat on the deck has alligator cracking and several impact and stress crack areas, and most of the hardware has been removed.
Along with this we got a bunch of...
Date: 03/27/2012
Views: 1896
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