PDQ Antares 44i - “The Cat's PJs”

Update: June 13, 2008
The owners of this fine yacht have just authorized a reduction of the asking price to US$750,000. “The Cat’s PJs” is in nearly new condition and is ready to cruise. At this price, why wait for a new boat to be built?

This is your chance to own a barely used and very well equipped Canadian-built PDQ Antares 44i catamaran. “The Cat’s PJs” is one of the last of the Canadian-built Antares (hull number 4421) and is the latest version of this very popular cruising cat. It was recently announced that future Antares will be built in the Far East and the first boats from this new venture are not available until at least late 2008. “The Cat’s PJs” is available now.

“The Cat’s PJs” was completed on July 11, 2007 and went to Florida. Other than the delivery trip, she’s hardly been used. She is reluctantly for sale due to the owner’s health concerns.

The PDQ Antares 44i is one of the few catamarans specifically designed as a long-term cruising yacht for couples and families. She’s not just an “owner’s version” of a boat designed primarily for the charter market. The 44i has benefited from the input of previous Antares owners and is an even better boat than her predecessors. The Antares 44i holds an Offshore Class A CE Classification. She’s ready to take you cruising.

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Dimensions

Engines

Tankage

• Raised L-shaped settee with off white Ultraleather upholstery and storage beneath
• Triangular table with folding corners on adjustable pedestal
• L-shaped entertainment center with 12" deep wet bar sink, 4 x cupboards, shelves and entertainment equipment cabinet
• Navigation area with drawer, pedestal mounted chair and CD rails
• Glass covered white chart storage unit (not installed)
• Sliding 38” wide entry door with Phantom screen door
• Pass-through to galley
• Stairways with handrails and courtesy lights leading into each hull
• Teak and holly flooring
• 2 x overhead hatches with Oceanaire blinds/screens
• 2 x Hella fans

• Queen size berth with 60"W x 80"L x 6"D foam mattress
• Bedside table with 2 x drawers
• 4 x storage drawers under berth
• 13 x cupboards in cabin and dressing area
• 5 ft. high wardrobe with double doors
• Stainless steel book railings in two areas
• Dressing area seat with off white Ultraleather cushion
• Escape hatch
• Hella fan
• 20” flat panel TV
• 2 x 110 VAC outlets and CD rails in dressing room

• Jabsco quiet flush electric head with home size seat
• Stainless steel under mount sink
• Fiberglass shower module with Plexiglas door
• Shower sump pump
• Corian Type A countertop-light yellow
• Soap/toothbrush holder
• Towel hook and mirror on door
• Towel bar over head
• Large medicine cabinet
• Storage below sink
• Overhead hatch with Oceanair blind/screen
• 110 volt ground fault outlets

• Queen size berth 60"W x 80"L x 6"D
• 2 x drawers under berth
• Hanging locker
• 6 x cupboards
• Dressing area seat with cushion
• Escape hatch
• 1 x 110 volt outlet
• Hella fan

• Double berth 52"W x 76"L x 6"D fully extended
• Large storage compartment
• Storage under berth
• Open shelf for computer equipment
• Fold down desk and fold down off white Ultraleather chair
• Filing drawer, 2 x regular drawers and cabinet with door
• Overhead hatch with Oceanair blind/screen
• Opening port
• Hella fan

• Jabsco quiet flush electric head with home size seat
• Sink
• Hand-held integrated shower
• 2 x very small cabinets over sink
• Cabinet below sink (for service access only)
• Opening port

• Princess 3276 3-burner LPG stove with sea rail and 2 x sets of pot holders
• Princess 325 flush mount LPG oven
• Convection microwave oven with 110V outlet
• 7 cubic ft. refrigerator
• 4 cubic ft. chest freezer
• Twin Waeco refrigerator/freezer compressor systems with independent thermostats
• Cherry finished exterior on refrigerator/freezer unit
• 2 x flush mounted stainless steel sinks
• Stainless steel backsplash
• Stainless steel shelf over stove with hooks
• Corian Type A countertops-light yellow
• Stainless steel backsplash
• 15 x Cherry cupboards and 5 x drawers
• Overhead hatch with Oceanaire blind/screen

• Low aspect keels on each hull
• Positive buoyancy tanks
• Rudders with skegs
• Clear anodized aluminum T-section toe rail mounted on external flange of both deck and hull
• Hull to deck fasteners on 5" centers
• Rub rail for hull protection
• Hull color is white
• Interprotect 2000 epoxy barrier coat
• 3” royal blue reflective boot stripe and 1” yellow reflective boot accent stripe
• Port forward deck locker with access to plumbing
• Starboard forward deck locker with steps provide generator access and good dry storage
• Center forward deck locker with ladder houses battery, deck wash pump and halyard tunnel and provides storage for hose, fenders, fender boards and shore power cords
• Cockpit lazaretto provide refrigeration compressors and steering access plus good storage
• 2 x externally vented rope lockers with Starboard dividers, each with 20 lb. propane tank
• Transom lockers with access to shaft steering system plus good storage
• Stainless steel through bolted chain plates
• Aluminum forebeam
• Vinyl dipped Dacron trampoline

• Sloop rig
• Deck stepped anodized aluminum Seldén Mast, double diamond stay configuration
• All stays have swaged terminals and open-body turnbuckles
• Anti-chafe sail rollers
• Rigid Seldén Rodkicker
• Halyards and reefing lines led aft to the cockpit
• 2:1 main halyard
• Harken luff car system for mainsail
• 6 x extra steps on mast
• Stowable bowsprit mounted on front crossbeam

• Mainsail, full batten, 616 sq. ft., Dimension Polyant CX-T cruising laminate with UV leach protection, single-line reefing with 2 x reef points, lazy jacks and tell tales
• Jib, self-tacking, 248 sq. ft., Dimension Polyant CX-T cruising laminate with Furlex furling system
• Screecher, 635 sq. ft. with Harken Code Zero furler, bowsprit blocks and sheets
• Storm jib
• PDQ Maintamer with Sunbrella sail cover

• FRP hardtop with integral carbon fiber beam support for traveler, full length handrails on top and handrails underneath
• Full royal blue enclosure for cockpit
• Stainless steel arch with integrated bench/davit system for dinghies up to 12’ length
• Stainless steel steering wheel
• Double helm seat with reversible backrest, covered in white polyethylene
• Additional open storage under the helm seat
• Moveable step stool at helm
• Cockpit seating arranged around oval FRP cockpit table
• Premium yellow Sunbrella cockpit upholstery
• Wraparound tinted polycarbonate windows in salon
• 2 x Lewmar ports with screens in port stateroom
• 2 x Lewmar ports with screens in starboard stateroom
• 2 x Lewmar ports with screens in wardrobe
• 1 x Lewmar port with screen in each head
• 1 x Lewmar port with screen in port forward cabin
• 1 x Bomar hatch over galley with Oceanair blinds/screens
• 2 x Bomar hatches over salon with Oceanair blinds/screens
• 1 x Bomar hatch over port forward cabin with Oceanair blinds/screens
• 1 x Bomar hatch over master head with Oceanair blinds/screens
• 1 x Bomar hatch in aft master cabin
• 1 x Bomar hatch in aft guest cabin

• Running rigging lead through underdeck raceway to stopper equipped cockpit electric winch pedestals
• Harken STA48 powered sheet winch mounted centrally
• Harken STA48 powered halyard winch mounted on aft pedestal
• 2 x Harken STA48 manual Genoa sheet winches
• 2 x winch handles
• Harken mainsheet traveler system with 6:1 Harken controls mounted on hardtop
• Harken self-tacking Jib traveler on foredeck
• Spinlock rope clutches, 8 aft, 3 at forward winch
• 12” mooring cleat with 2 x fairleads on each bow
• 12” mooring cleat with single fairlead amidships on each hull
• 12” mooring cleat with single fairlead on each stern
• 12” mooring cleat with single fairlead on each transom
• 6 x 30” stanchions per side with double lifelines
• Gates with pelican hooks at stern and transom
• FRP bow seats in pulpits
• Manson Supreme SUP45 45 lb. anchor with 50’ x 10mm high test chain and 250’ x 5/8” anchor rode
• Fortress 21 lb. aluminum anchor with 50’ x 10mm high test chain and 250’ x 5/8” anchor rode
• Additional Fortress anchor with chain and rode
• Anchor bridle
• Double anchor roller and chain stop
• Quick Rider 1000 electric windlass with deck controls
• 4 x 60' dock lines
• 6 x fenders with lines
• Recessed telescopic stainless steel boarding ladder on port transom
• LPG outlet in starboard aft rope locker
• Halogen cockpit lights with dimmer switch
• Barbecue grill
• Tuff-end 27” white round fender for close quarters manuvering

• Engines located amidships in sound shielded compartment
• 16” 3-blade feathering Max props with line cutters and 1.25” shafts
• 2 x 60 gallon aluminum diesel tanks mounted amidships below waterline
• Racor dual 75/500 MAXD fuel filters with vacuum gauges on top of filter
• Whitlock shaft drive "MAMBA" steering system
• Rudders linked by tiller bar
• UHMW Polyethylene rudder bearings
• 2 x independent 75 gallon aluminum water tanks mounted amidships below water-line with WEMA monitoring system
• Pressurized domestic water system with Jabsco Sensor-Max VSD 4.5 gal./min. pump
• 2 x 5 gallon hot water heaters, one per hull, with electric element and engine heat exchanger
• 30 gallon holding tank adjacent to each head with "Y" valve for deck or overboard discharge and WEMA monitoring system
• Spectra watermaker installed in starboard hull transom compartment
• Washdown pump outlet located in anchor locker with hose and sprayer
• Pressurized hot and cold hand held shower adjacent to port transom stairs
• Quietflush electric W.C. in port forward head and master head
• 2 x 20 lb aluminum propane tanks in aft rope lockers
• Cruisair 6500 Btu air conditioning unit in port aft cabin
• Cruisair 12000 Btu air conditioning unit in master cabin
• Cruisair 18000 Btu air conditioning unit in salon
• Northern Lights 6 KW generator (1020 hours) with sound insulation box
• Spendide model 2000 washer/dryer in salon cabinet

• 4 x 6VDC 8L16 flooded cell house batteries (740 ampere-hours) in fiberglass enclosure
• 3 x 12VDC Group 24 flooded cell batteries for engines and generator
• 55 ampere alternators on main engines
• 4 x 50 watt solar panels recessed into hardtop
• Smart regulator for solar panels
• Master Volt 2000 watt inverter and battery charger with navigation station control panel
• Distribution panel adjacent to navigation station with 23 x 12VDC circuit breakers, main DC circuit breaker, 5 x 110VAC circuit breakers, main AC circuit breaker, ammeter and voltmeter
• 2 x shore power inlets
• 110 VAC outlet in each aft cabin and in port forward cabin
• 2 x 12 VDC outlets in cockpit
• 2 x overhead halogen lights on dimmer, 2 x halogen reading lights and halogen master wardrobe light in aft cabins
• Overhead and vanity light in head
• 6 x halogen overhead lights and fluorescent over stove in galley
• 6 x halogen overhead lights on dimmer, central overhead light and 2 x reading lights in salon
• Navigation station light
• Overhead halogen lights on dimmer in cockpit
• Mast outfitted with steaming light/deck light, spreader lights, anchor light and tri-light

• Raymarine E series 120 12” display mounted at helm
• Raymarine 2 KW radome mounted on mast
• Raymarine ST60 Tridata speed/depth/temperature
• Raymarine ST60 wind speed/AWI
• Raymarine ST6001 autopilot upgraded to Type S3G core pack
• Raymarine smart wireless autopilot controller with instrument repeater
• Raymarine Raystar 125 WAAS GPS
• Horizon Quest VHF radio with RAM microphone
• ICOM M802 SSB radio
• ICOM AT-140 automatic SSB antenna tuner
• SSB antenna and ground system with Dynaplate and copper foil
• Iridium satellite phone with 500 minutes call time
• Raymarine Raytech software
• Entertainment center (Sirius® ready) with12 VDC Clarion AM/FM/MP3/DVD/CD stereo, Clarion 6CD changer, 2 x interior speakers, 2 x cockpit speakers and subwoofer
• Shakespeare AM/FM VHF band seperator on VHF antenna
• Sony Bravia 42” flat panel HDTV in salon
• 20” flat panel TV in master cabin with TV outlet and 110 VAC outlet
• TV outlet and 110 V outlet in entertainment unit
• Cable TV/phone inlet by shore power connection
• TV antenna on mast

• Rule 1500 bilge pumps installed amidships in each hull
• Portable Edson manual bilge pump
• GlobalFix 4 EPIRB with integral GPS
• 2 x 30” Type IV white ring buoys
• Offshore 25mm Alert/Locate Ultimate Marine Signal Kit
• Firefly Plus strobe and flashlight
• 2 x spotlights
• Electronic handheld horn
• 2 x whistles
• Fog bell in cockpit
• Emergency steering through transom stairs with emergency tiller

• 5/16” x 50’ galvanized proof coil chain with blue PVC cover
• Generator spares kit
• Engine spares kit
• Manuals for all systems

• Diving equipment
• Galley equipment
• Personal effects
• Tools
• Fishing equipment