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The Ten Commandments of Buying a Catamaran
If you are in the habit of attending boat shows, as I am, it becomes obvious that most catamaran manufacturers would like you to believe they have created the perfect yacht. The general drift of their sales pitches is nearly always the same: “Plenty of room and safety for mom and the kids, loads of..... |
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There’s More Than One Way to Drive a Cat
There are several discussion points nearly all serious catamaran buyers and owners eventually come back to. We hear about bridge deck clearance, daggerboards versus keels, galley up versus galley down, foam core versus balsa core, etc. The placement of helms on catamarans is another of these often-d..... |
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The Perils of Internet Catamaran Shopping
Many brokerage companies claim to offer “buyer brokerage” services, but their brokers are not Multihull experts. Any yacht broker who sells a powerboat one day and a single hulled sailboat the next cannot be a true “buyer broker.” At The Multihull Company every broker is a true expert – all we do,..... |
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New Netting Makes Trampolines Tougher
I had the occasion last summer to construct a deployable aft trampoline for my catamaran Boondock. Hang on a second, did I just say aft trampoline?..... |
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Lightening Up - Catana Adds More Speed
Catana, the world's leading innovator of luxury performance catamarans, is proud to announce several construction innovations that have dramatically reduced the weight of their catamaran line, making their yachts faster than ever before...... |
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Lessons Learned From A Free Spirit
Recently, I was fortunate enough to meet up Russell Eddington, a former Hobie cat racer I have known since my teens, in Thailand and to spend a few days cruising around the islands off Phuket on Free Spirit, his Dolphin 460. During our time together I peppered him with questions about his voyaging,..... |
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Green Redux!
I got quite a bit of mail about my article on going "green" on cruising cats. So, to keep the debate going here let me share with you some of the discussions I have had since then with David Tether, who is an old friend and a guy who has dedicated a lot of time and energy to the development of hybri..... |
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Going Green In Blue Water
Recently, the idea of "going green" in sailing voyages keeps coming up. And while some very smart engineers have dedicated great time and effort to developing reliable electric driven propulsion systems, one thing continues to ring true..... |
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Cats On The Baja Haha
Experience cruising in the Pacific Northwest as TMC broker Matthew Dunning chronicles his voyages in the 2009 Baja Haha...... |
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Catamaran Vs Monohull
I’ve long been fond of quoting the 16th century Scottish philosopher David Hume who wrote that “all advantages are attended with disadvantages.” For Hume the good life had nothing to do with the quest for perfection, but the effort to discover the wise compromise that might inch us closer to fulfill..... |
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Catamaran Depreciation
We all know that boats, unlike real estate, tend to depreciate. For those who are about to buy a catamaran, the question is: How much will it depreciate? Here at our brokerage firm it is pretty common for someone to call and ask, “How much am I going to lose over the next two years if I buy this boa..... |
