Tarantella (catamaran)

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Tarantella was a {{convert|33|ft|m|abbr=on}} sailing catamaran designed by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff. She was launched in 1877, a year after Herreshoff's smaller catamaran Amaryllis won the 1876 New York Centennial Regatta, which resulted in multihulls being banned from regattas.{{citation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F_NOsIXtd14C&pg=PA84|author=Randy Thomas|title=Multihulls Discovered: Part 1|publisher=Yachting|volume=156|number=6|date=June 1985}} The Tarantella was {{convert|15|in|cm}} longer than her two patented sisterships Teaser and John Gilpin (measuring approximately 32 feet in length overall). She was eventually exported to the United Kingdom.{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/manualofyachtboa00kemp#page/n853/|author=Dixon Kemp|title=A Manual of boat and yacht sailing|publisher=Horace Cox Publishers|date=1900}} The brother of her designer described these catamarans as outstanding upwind performers:{{cpq|I can, with a good whole-sail breeze, beat to windward faster, by a mile an hour at least, than any other sailing vessel afloat.|author=Lewis Herreshoff|source=[http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/03/r/vintage/catamaran/index.htm The Spirit of the Times (November 24th, 1877)]}}