38 x 19ft 20 knot Cruising Catamaran ForSale
She is a beautiful, light and airy custom built catamaran, she is packed with innovative ideas and storage solutions that make her very easy to live aboard. A unique build (Germany). Her construction is a composite build - marine ply/epoxy hulls sheathed with glass epoxy inside and out, with foam core topsides so that she can never sink and crash compartments bow and stern. She has copper coated hulls below the waterline and painted hulls, superstructure and topsides (). Built to cruise the world with simplistic systems; hand pump and foot pump for fresh water; retractable outboard engines (easily removed if one needs attention); manual anchor windlass; solar panels (on deck and aft) and a 200 W wind turbine for power independence. Her simple cutter rig sail-plan makes sail handling easy with two head sails on roller furling units and a square topped mainsail. Her steering system is made up from light weight none stretch line and is routed from the wheel steering to the tie bar at the stern, she has a belt driven autopilot. The unique thing about her is her hulls, she has no keels and works on the hull principle of one curved side, one straight side (one hull being the inverse of the other). When the starboard hull pulls one way the port hull pulls the opposite way thus negating the need for stub keels and enabling her to hold a steady course. She is capable of sailing at speeds of 20 knots and cruises happily at 10 knots in the right wind and sea conditions. Whilst delivering to C a r t a g e n she was fully laden and still cruising at knots with a max speed of 15.4 knots. She has 7 Solar panels giving 490 watts in total but can easily carry more panels on deck if required. The aft panel and frame is only 12 months old. The wind turbine is a 200 watt Air Breeze (serviced Nov with new cable and bushes). Her solar panels feed three independent controllers so she has built-in redundancy should a panel become damaged. Her mainsail (designed and made by a local company) was new in Oct - a square topped sail with 5 battens to give performance, dropping into a brand new stack pack (Oct ). Both head sail UV strips have been restitched (Oct ). Her spinnaker is a traditional spinnaker in a sock and is in V G C. Storm jib. She hosts stainless steel davits which also support the wind gen, solar panel and radar & g p s antenna. Her main anchor is a 20 kg stainless steel German Bugle anchor which provides excellent holding with 35 meters of 8 mm anchor chain () and 35 m of 20 mm plaid warp (Dec ). Her second anchor is a Delta 20 kg. The windlass is a Tigress manual. 7 m bridle for anchoring. Domestic batteries: 4 x deep cycle A G M 110 ah were all replaced in Oct (charged by mains charger, solar panels and wind gen) Engine batteries: 2 x 65 ah starter batteries (charged by mains charger and engine alternators). Read more