[6] The Horizon Cat has been built by Com-Pac Yachts in the United States since 2002 and remains in production.
[4] The Com-Pac Horizon Cat is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim.
[1][3][4] The design has sleeping accommodation for two people, with two straight settee quarter berths in the main cabin.
[3] In a 2003 article in Cruising World, writer Jeremy McGeary praised the design's beam dimensions, which, but deviating from the norm for New England catboats, allowed to be legally trailerable.
[8] In a 2010 review Steve Henkel wrote, "the Com-Pac Horizon 18 is a reconstruction of the Herreshoff America ... pursued after builder Hutchins bought the tooling from the last of many molders of the original vessel, first built in 1971 ... it is easy to see that many small changes were made in the design—for instance, adding two inches to the beam, and 100 pounds to the ballast (but without increasing the overall weight?
Best features: Reduced sail area ... may slow the Horizon down a little in light air, but advantages more than compensate, eg., reefing can be delayed a bit ... and less area results in a lighter mast and boom, making it easier to raise and lower the spars at a launching ramp.