COM-PAC YACHTS - Key Persons
Gerry Hutchins told me that when they decided to add a line of catboats to the fleet, they again went to Clark Mills for the designs. The Picnic Cat and the Sun Cat are classic catboat hulls to which Com-Pac has added some new technology and ways of doing things - like the Hutchins Company's trademarked Mastendr Quick Rig Sailing System that makes raising and lowering the mast quick and effortless. Gerry feels that the Mastendr™ is a great marketing feature, "people really appreciate the quickness and ease of that system," he says. "It's a hinge within the aluminum extrusion - the boom, sail and gaff all push down below the hinge and rest on the boom gallows, then, with the forestay released, the spar is able to hinge back and rest on the boom gallows as well." For trailering or dropping the rig to get under a low fixed bridge, this seems to be the ideal set-up.