Info re: Picaroon

[DonB]

I inherited a 20/21 foot mahogany boat a few years ago and am just about ready to launch this Spring. Very little info available and I am hoping that this forum will serve up some info.
This is a cat rigged ---1/2 mile long mast, outboard 9.8.

Several stories surfaced about this boat or it/s sister ship that it was sailed from Mobile to Cuba, anything is possible!

Looking forward to your input

 

[Kermit]

I inherited a 20/21 foot mahogany boat a few years ago... Very little info available and I am hoping that this forum will serve up some info.
This is a cat rigged ---1/2 mile long mast, outboard 9.8

Still very little info available. Got any pictures?

 

[DonB]

Yep, a couple when I took ownership, 2 pcs looking pretty rough but just cosmetics, just completing painting for a Spring launch. I will look up pics and forward. Thanks

 

[onecoolair]

I inherited a 20/21 foot mahogany boat a few years ago and am just about ready to launch this Spring. Very little info available and I am hoping that this forum will serve up some info.
This is a cat rigged ---1/2 mile long mast, outboard 9.8.

Several stories surfaced about this boat or it/s sister ship that it was sailed from Mobile to Cuba, anything is possible!

Looking forward to your input

So you have a 2,640' foot tall mast??

 

[Roadking Larry]

So you have a 2,640' foot tall mast??

Since it's a boat shouldn't that be in nautical miles making it an even 3,000'?

 

[oldersalt]

Could be a home-built 18' full-keel "pocket cruiser" designed by Sam Rabl and described in his 1948 book "Boatbuilding In Your Backyard." Later 1958 edition showing the boat was still in print a few years ago. Try Amazon. Your rig sounds different from the original design, though.