Barnstable Cat Boat

It became famous as the boat of choice for the likes of Jackie Onassis, Stephen Spielberg, and Calvin Klein. Designed by Carl Beetle in 1921, it was a wooden sailboat with a single sail hanging from a mast unusually situated on the bow of the dinghy. This boat pictured, however, is not that boat. Sporting a fiberglass hull and deck, the Barnstable Cat Boat is a modern reproduction of Beetle’s original design, the Beetle Cat Boat, though observers watching from the pier probably won’t know the difference.