Utilizing the sailboat designs of Halsey Herreshoff, Cat Ketch Corporation produced the 31, 35 and 45 foot sailing yachts starting in the late 1970s. Built by a company owned by John Newton, ...

Widgeon, the Herreshoff S Class, was the sixth one built between 1919-1920. More than 100 Herreshoff S Class boats were built between 1919-1943. They still race on Narragansett Bay today.

The story of what is known as the “H-28” began as Design No.80 on the drawing board of L. Francis Herreshoff, shortly after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941.