A New Water Sport at Redondo Can the catamaran?
Never!
Can you catamaran? No?
Well, Miss Avis Coffey can—and does—to the intense interest and delight of those who are fortunate enough to see her with her cata-moran in the surf at Redondo Beach, California.
The catamaran is one of the strangest looking of the smaller seacraft and, like the surf-board, it is absolutely unsinkable. Although it may be overturned, floated on its' side, or "stood on its head," it's all the same to the catamaran, which smilingly reiterates "I can."
It was introduced to the United States by that peerless aquatic performer. the late Capt. George Freeth, of Honolulu, who brought the surf-board to the coast and taught the uninitiated how to "ride" a surf-board and how to "shoot" a catamaran over the pellucid waters of the Pacific.
As with the surf-board, one needs to be dressed in bathing costume best to manipulate a catamaran, for the speravie will undoubtedly get well drenched with the salt sea spray. The catamaran is constructed like twin rowboats, with the exception that the tops are covered making air-tight interiors. These are firmly joined together and seat for the rower built about 18 inches above the water, Thus the water surges in betwen the boats, underneath the seat, and, as) in swimming, the novice must become accustomed to being slapped in the face with the waves and the spray. Locks are built in on either side for the oars with which the catamaran is operated.
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