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Our goal is to bring to the market a high-end, customized catamaran which we believe is currently not available to the serious blue water cruiser. We strive to incorporate the best in current design trends, safety and amiable features in ONE single yacht that will take you safely anywhere in the world.
A large spacious area with generous lockers, seating, lighting and sound systems. A hard bimini, extending from the salon roof covers fully half of the cockpit area to provide shade and shelter from the elements. Sail-handling is safe and well thought out for the cruising couple as ALL controls lead directly to the raised and offset helm station allowing for single handed sailing. Access into and out of the cockpit and along both hull decks, is accomplished easily along the large, wide, flat walk areas. There is no need for dingy davits as the boom incorporates a telescoping 'boom-derrick' system which allows the dingy to be raised to it's chocks from the safety of the cockpit.
This extremely spacious customer-designed layout can be tailored to the expressed needs of a family cruiser, liveaboard couple, Coast Guard Certified boat for hire or anything inbetween. The salon includes: a dedicated interior helm station with full engine controls, engine instrumentation, autopilot, navigation center, integrated radar plotter, GPS, communications center and chart table. The salon also houses the entertainment center, dining settee, honeycombed granite counter tops and two matching leather reclining chairs to provide unparalled comfort. Panoramic views are available from any direction through the large windows that surround the salon and ample ventilation is provided through the large opening hatches and ports. Headroom heights in the salon will be 6' 8" to 7' 0" throughout and much-wider-than-normal staircases open into the incredibly spacious and well-lit hulls.
This extremely spacious custom-designed layout can be tailored to the expressed needs of a family cruiser, liveaboard couple, Coast Guard Certified boat for hire or anything in-between. The salon includes: a dedicated interior helm station with full engine controls, engine instrumentation, autopilot, navigation center, integrated radar plotter, GPS, communications center and chart table. The salon also houses the entertainment center, dining settee, and two matching leather reclining chairs to provide unparalled comfort. Panoramic views are available from any direction through the large windows that surround the salon and ample ventilation is provided through the large opening hatches and ports. Headroom heights in the salon are 6' 8" to 7' 0" throughout and much-wider-than-normal staircases open into the incredibly spacious and well-lit and ventilated hulls.

Galley 'up' or galley 'down' options are available to accommodate all client preferences. With either selection a large stand-up refrigerator freezer can be selected allowing for an almost at-home-like feeling. In terms of available room, storage, counter space and functionality this galley will meet the requirements of the most serious cruising chefs. The galley-down option is extremely well-lit and ventilated, offering views of your surroundings through 4 large rectangular windows. It also has a direct view and access to the salon and dining area so the cook is never isolated from the activities in the salon. Optional honeycombed granite counter tops provide an elegant counter surface without the weight traditionaly associated with this material. A wider than normal staircase provides easy egress into both hulls so it's not an exercise in being cramped and crowded.
Due to the broader hull-beam, accommodations will rival most cats in the 55'+ range, yet her narrower footprint allows sailing performance of the larger sized cats. Engine power options will allow motor speeds to above 12 knots, with a 8-10 knot cruise speed at 2,000RPM. Hull speeds while sailing are around half the wind speed and should produce 200+ mile days in tradewind conditions.
Special Note:
A ll hull bulkheads are beneath the teak and holley flooring allowing easy acess thru the hulls and between the cabins - it's all on one-level. No 'up-and-over' style bulkheads to trip over, but a nice flat transition between areas! Hull layout design will be to the owner's choice of design. Owner-dedicated hull, extra berths, office, workshop, library,! heads with separate showers, walk-in closet, tubs...... all are possible. Guests or children can be accomodated in the opposite hulls allowing individual privacy to be assured. Headroom heights are 6' 8" - 7' 0" throughout the hulls.
Large, FLAT, wide walking surfaces are provided throughout all areas of the boat. Composite structure to the molded crossbeams, chainplates and dingy platform are utilized to eliminating anodized beams and the corrosion problems inherent when using differing metals in a salt water environment. With a unique flared hull design, two important safety factors are achieved.
7 Walking areas on both hulls are much wider, flatter and safer than on a typical catamaran.
7 Tremendous reserve-buoyancy is generated with mimimal loss of performance in 'downhill running' seas and hard-to-weather conditions. Hull choices will include beachable cruising keels, single or dual daggerboards, or a combination of each. Tests have found that in identical cats a single daggerboard showed marginal loss of performance to weather over those with 2 daggerboards.
Owner choices will include a standard rig, optional Aero-rig., optional carbon/foam core rotating mast, in-boom or in-mast sails as well as roller furling. Another catamaran first will be the (proven) use of molded integral chainplates thus eliminating another source of dissimilar metal corrosion possibilities, metal fatigue factors, additional maintenance and staining to the hulls, etc.

This is available to the owner in a variety of wood types, styles and finishes. From a luxury yacht finish, to a low-ma! intenance look which is both stylish and easy to maintain. The interior finish will be quoted to owner specifications based on customization and interior layout requested.
Standard engines will be 2 x 77hp Yanmar diesels with optional 100hp turbo diesels or Solomon Technology electric engines available. Optional Jensen Flex-O-Fold propellers have been shown to have the least drag and best pull in comparison tests done by Cruising World magazine. With 200hp, performance is in the 12+ knots range while burning a gallon per side.
This is a very personal area and all measures will be taken to provide the owner with all that is required to ensure a well-equipped and comfortable world cruising catamaran yacht.

 
 
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