The catboat is a classic fishing boat.

Although any boat with a single sail and a mast carried well forward is ' technically ' a catboat, the traditional catboat has a wide beam approximately half the length of the boat, a centreboard, and a single gaff-rigged sail.

A cat-rigged boat or catboat.

Afternoon by the Sea ( Gravesend Bay ), a pastel by William Merritt Chase, ca 1888 shows traditional catboat s in the bay and the Navesink Highlands across Lower New York Bay.

It is generally accepted that the origin of the catboat type was in New York around 1840 and from there spread east and south as the virtues of the type — simplicity, ease of handling, shallow draft, large capacity — were discovered.

* C: This is a 20-foot catboat with one large sail set far forward on the hull.

Crosby Boat Yard is port to the Crosby catboat, and the Wianno senior, the latter a favorite of nearby Hyannisport resident President John F. Kennedy.

The Bolger Bobcat, an easy-to-build take on the Beetle Cat, is a multichine design featured in Build the Instant Catboat, but still " instant " compared to a conventionally-built plank-on-frame catboat.

* Yawl: like a sloop or catboat with a mizzen mast located aft ( closer to the stern of the vessel ) of the rudder post.

By World War II the boys were actively racing a 14-foot Peterborough catboat, which had been left to them by a family friend who had been sent overseas.

A catboat has a single mast mounted fairly forward and does not carry a jib.

These " stern-steerer " iceboats were generally rigged as sloops, with a jib sail forward of the mast, although the catboat style with a single sail was also used.

* Rigs with one mast: the proa, the catboat, the sloop, the cutter

Most modern designs have only one sail, the mainsail ; however the traditional catboat could carry multiple sails from the gaff rig.

Some catboats such as the Barnegat Bay type and more modern catboat designs carry a Bermuda sail.

* Beetle, Inc. manufacturer of the Beetle catboat.

* Howard Boats manufacturer of the Barnstable catboat, a fiberglass version of the traditional wooden Beetle catboat.

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Chinese checkers ( alternate spelling Chinese chequers ) is a board game that can be played by two, three, four, or six people, playing individually or with partners.

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* Homos, an alternate spelling for hommus or hummus, a Levantine Arab food dip or spread made from chickpeas

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* Quincy, an alternate spelling of quinzhee, snow shelter similar to an igloo

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* Mutt, alternate spelling for Matha, a Hindu or Jain religious establishment

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Monterrey is an alternate spelling of Monterrei, a municipality in the Galicia region of Spain from which the viceroy and his father ( the Fourth Count of Monterrei ) were from.

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* Er, alternate spelling for Yer ( Ъ / ъ ), the hard-sign letter of the Cyrillic alphabet