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Globetrotter 45' cat ketch, can be built in composite, wood-epoxy, or aluminum. Rig is carbon fiber free-standing wingmasts with half wishbone booms.

Globetrotter 45' cat ketch, can be built in composite, wood-epoxy, or aluminum. Rig is carbon fiber free-standing wingmasts with half wishbone booms.

Lapstrake plywood open dinghy with balanced lugg rig

My previous boat- Marie ty

Head of fore mast, sailing in to Toronto

My previous boat- Marie ty

My previous boat-Marie ty

The Vamarie wishbone ketch rig has been used on IOD model yacht hulls successfully as an alternate rig.

Two different rig options for motorsailing cat. Here a sloop with self-tacking camber-spar jib

Before and After Shots. 24ft boat was 350kg overweight with inefficient keel and rig. Not to mention the deck layout!! Al the rigging was in sizes suitable for a 32ft ocean racer from the '70s. We designed a new keel, a small, but efficient rig and took pains to keep everything simple...

The center of effort of the Star rig will be effectively moved forward if the Star mainsail is reduced as proposed in this graphic.

This shows how the Star Class mainsail is set on an Irwin 23 using running backstays. The standard mainsail can be used alternatively. The running backstays are very helpful when using the hoist at the Sarasota Sailing Squadron.

The Irwin 23 was offered with a tall rig 4' higher than standard. I fitted my boat with a Sliding Gunter that allows me to hoist the Star Class mainsail 5' higher than the standard rig. Running backstays were added so that the full Star Class boom could be used. This...

Unusual wishbone shaped sailing rig spotted somewhere in the NW USA. We now know there were two vessels built to this concept, one a tall rig, one a shorter rig. They were concieved and designed by a Boeing engineer by the name of Fred Greenway. The mast material appears to be carbon fiber