42ft. Double-ended Schooner Wild Cat
design specifications, sail plan, extended comments
Sail Plan, Specifications, and Comments
Wildcat
42' Double-ended Schooner Wild Cat
Construction:
LOA: 42' 0"
Beam: 13' 0"
Draft: 6' 0"
Displacement: 33,000 lbs
Ballast: 11,500 lbs
Sail Area: 10,444 sq.ft.
Builder:
Comments
From “Sailing Cruiser Design”:Drawing Wild Cat's lines, with their wonderful symmetry, was a pure pleasure, and it's easy to see how these boats came to captivate people. If I retained Colin Archer's beam/length proportions for Wild Cat, he would come out about 14ft 3in. wide. This would create a nice, roomy interior, but the waterlines would be too full forward, meaning he would be too blunt for good windward performance. Looking at half-angles of entry is an easy way to measure how blunt or fine the bow of a boat is. Measuring the angle between the centreline and waterline at the stem of a Colin Archer rescue vessel gives a result close to 30 degrees. Modern cruisers run somewhere between 18 degrees and 22 degrees; racers are much finer. Wild Cat came out at 22 degrees.
last updated August 01, 2006