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Beloved by its owners, the Beetle Cat has been bringing sailors together for 100 years
Were you to encounter him in person, Bill Womack likely wouldn’t strike you as a structural engineer with a lifetime of high-profile tunnel, bridge and road projects under his belt. He has a snow-white, Imperial-style beard and a friendly, softly weathered face. He wears a baseball cap, flannel shirt, wool sweater and wire-rimmed glasses. He looks like anyone you might find poking around docks and boatyards just about anywhere in New England.
Perhaps the look is fitting, considering that most of Womack’s work these days centers around sails, sawdust, varnish and the sweet smell of sawn lumber. He’s the owner of the Beetle Cat Boat Shop in Wareham, Massachusetts, the current iteration of a company that, since 1921, has been building the stately but simple Beetle Cat. It’s a 12-foot, wooden, gaff-rigged sailing dinghy that Womack fell in love with near Onset, Massachusetts, during summe
Antique & Classic Boat Festival Founder Pat Wells Dies
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Dec 18, 2020
Pat Wells, one of the founders and the guiding spirit behind the Antique & Classic Boat Festival, passed away on December 9 at age 84.
Pat grew up in Newton, Massachusetts and spent summers in Duxbury, on Boston’s South Shore, where she and her siblings sailed a Beetle Cat, sail No. 57. After graduating from Smith College, Pat edited a travel guide and worked with the Boston Architectural Center and at MIT, but she found her life’s mission when she got involved first with efforts to clean up Boston harbor and then to preserve our maritime heritage.