Report from Cat Country

We’ll bet many guys out there — as well as a few women — still have fond memories of building plastic models as a childhood pastime. Looking at these photos of San Francisco sailor David Otto’s massive cat coming together in South Africa, you might get the impression that custom boatbuilding is as simple as snapping together a scale model of a ’56 Chevy — you know, ‘insert tab A into slot B’. But we can guarantee you that fabricating a one-off sailing machine like this one is an intensely complex process.

Having just received a sneak peak at the project, we hope to give you the background on this amazing yacht in the August Latitude.