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BEETLE CAT

Sailboat Specifications

both US imperial metric

Hull Type:

Centerboard Dinghy

Rigging Type:

Gaff head Cat

LOA:

12.33 ft / 3.76 m

LWL:

11.67 ft / 3.56 m

Beam:

6.08 ft / 1.85 m

S.A. (reported):

140.00 ft² / 13.01 m²

Draft (max):

2.00 ft / 0.61 m

Draft (min):

0.50 ft / 0.15 m

Displacement:

450 lb / 204 kg

S.A./Disp.:

38.19

Disp./Len.:

126.40

Construction:

Wood or FG

First Built:

1921

# Built:

3600

Builder:

Beetle, Inc. (USA)

Designer:

John Beetle

Sailboat Calculations

Definitions

S.A./Disp.:

38.19

Disp./Len.:

126.40

Comfort Ratio:

5.29

Capsize Screening Formula:

3.18

Sailboat Links

Designers:

Carl N. Beetle

Builders:

Construction Navale Franck Roy

Concordia Company (USA)

Beetle Boat Co.(USA)

Howard Boats

Beetle Inc.

Associations:

Beetle Class Association (USA)

Download Boat Record:

PDF

Notes

The 'authentic' BEETLE CAT is a strict one-design class and built of wood.
After World War II, Carl Beetle, son of the designer, passed the rights for construction of the original Beetle Cat Boats to the Concordia Company.
As of 2014 it was being built solely by the Beetle Boat Shop. (Beetle Cat Inc.)
There are, and have been, numerous boats modeled after the original BEETLE CAT, of fiberglass and other methods of construction. (In the US and elsewhere.)

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