Bart Senior wrote:
I'd like to find out for myself. I'm pursuing some
factyory tranatlantic delivery work on one of these
just to find out if I like them on the ocean.


That would be cool.

There are few US built catamarans.

That's because they take so much labor... maybe not twice as much as a
monohull


... the
Mainecat 40 which has only canvas for protection
in the deckhouse--not exactly comforting protection.

Right, but then it's supposed to be a hotrod for daysailing & weekending.


I think the gunboat 62 is a fine vessel, but at $2.2 million
I would rather built a custom cat out of aluminum.


Shucks, for that kind of money, you could pick a LOT of better options
IMHO.... including spending far less on a boat or two and banking the
rest...

For an interesting link on a one-off Aluminum cruising
cat with a high bridgedeck, check out this link.

http://malvm1.mala.bc.ca/~bigras/o7/o7.htx


That is a pretty cool boat.

This fellow built an impressive boat, and then sold it just
after he finished the bulk of the work, due to a divorce.


Bummer. At least he didn't have to split the boat with her.

It cost him $70k to build hull and deck. Spars are
homemade. I would have bought a better boom.

Overall an impressive job, but not worth the $10k
he made for his labors--which works out to $3.33/hr
or less.


He's lucky. A lot of home boat builders don't even recover material cost
when selling a partially completed boat. Aluminum is outstanding though.
I like the dinghy too.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King