| | Good Old Boat: Catalina Yachts - One Big Family by Steve Mitchell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Catalina 22, hull #1, sails in the One of a Kind Regatta on Lake Michigan in 1970. |
 | | He remembers, "I was in Ireland, and Frank called me to say that he was forming Catalina Yachts." That one phone call is all it took for Beattie to return to work for Frank. |
 | | For many years, Catalina was the largest sailboat manufacturer that did no national advertising, a terrific economic advantage compared to its competitors in an industry where spending 6 to 10 percent of the retail price of a new boat on advertising and marketing is not uncommon. |
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