About Santa Katalina and us

Santa Katalina (SK) is a beautiful long keel boat with traditional graceful lines and a dramatic 5 sail schooner rig. She was built in 1984 and was registered in Gloucester. She has circumnavigated twice and is currently undergoing a major (several years +?!) refit for another spell of globetrotting.

We are Martin and Lorry Quinn (aka Lorraine Powell) and we bought SK in Southern Spain and then spent a year or so getting her up together for the journey back.  We sailed her back to the UK in July 2007 and she is now in the Sharpness Shipyard at the entrance to the Gloucester/Sharpness canal - so almost back to her original home.

SK is a Sampson-designed C-Lord, of which we believe only 9 have been built.  She is 54 feet (16.4m) on deck and 64ft (20m) over the bowsprit and boomkin. The bowsprit and boomkin extend the rig at the both the bow and the stern and, with the inverted fisherman sail which provides lots of power high up, she has plenty of power to drive her 30 tonnes and eat up the miles .

Her cockpit is roomy and safe with lots of places to stretch out. The decks fore and aft are flat and uncluttered, great for a party in port and safe at sea. Her beautiful teak handrails add to that feeling of security when the sea gets lumpy!

Great fun to sail.......

SK’s friends....

Click below to view a movie clip of dolphins riding the bow wave.

At Sharpness docks with her support vehicle

We will be using this site to keep all of our friends up to date with our (probably slow) progress.  When we’ve finished we will be off on our adventures and you will be able to follow us on the “Our Adventures” pages. (We might also re-vamp this site when we get the hang of how to do webpages properly !) We’d also love to keep in touch with everyone we know and if you’d like to contact us please use the e-mail address at the bottom of the page.

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