Add to ORKGcatamaran nWhen I was growing up in Heart's Content, T.B., most of the stoves in the dwelling houses were wood-burning stoves. In the Fall, about October the men would go into the woods and cut wirewood. The wood would be piled until the snow came and the ponds were frozen and then it was hauled on slides called _catamarans_ or simply _"cats"_. The men fasted a rope called (over) a "hauling rope" to the "forward" or front beam of the catamaran and guided the load of wood with one stick of wood jutting out from the other sticks and called a "_steering stick_." Sometimes a boy would help his father by using a second "hauling rope" fastened to the "_after" beam_. In many cases "buck" goats were used to pull the ...