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Maine Cat Catamarans: Maine Cat 38

A tropics-loving multihull from the northeast.

You’d be hard-pressed to find a nicer couple than Dick and Lynn Vermeulen, who have been in the unlikely business of designing and building lightweight open bridgedeck cruising catamarans in midcoast Maine for more than 20 years. Their latest offering, the new Maine Cat 38, combines the simplicity of a true open bridgedeck boat, with no heavy furniture or accommodations between the hulls, with a deft sense of style and practicality. For construction aficionados, it also features a new production thermoformed-core build process, utterly unique to Maine Cat, that both reduces weight and increases structural integrity.

Flared hard chines on the hulls help open up the accommodation spaces, which are tastefully finished in wood and are much warmer and more welcoming than the Spartan plastic interiors found on most boats like this. The standard layout features two generous double berths aft with one cramped double (or a very generous single berth, depending on your proclivities) forward to port. The simple yet practical galley is down in the center of the port hull. A nav area and a large head fill much of the starboard hull. The bridgedeck between the hulls makes a great social space, thanks to opening windows forward, which provide ventilation when needed, and a hard targa roof that offers shelter from sun and rain.

Construction quality, as befits a Maine-built boat, is impeccable. The thermoformed Core-Cell coring, bent seamlessly around curves and corners with no kerfs or inherent imperfections, is set in infused vinylester resin throughout. Equipment-installation and finish quality likewise meet the high Maine Cat standards that have seen the builder field less than $1,000 per year in warranty claims throughout its long  history.  

Charles J. Doane learned to sail on the Maine coast as a boy and has since roamed the North Atlantic on numerous boats. He has written for various sailing magazines and maintains a blog at www.wavetrain.net .

Maine Cat 38

Draft  29" boards up, 6'6" boards down

Displ.  12,400 lbs.

Sail area   Combinations from 844-1,430 sq.

Power  Twin 15-hp outboards

Fuel 44 gals.

Water  82 gals.

Maine Cat Catamarans

207-529-6500

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Maine Cat 38 Catamaran Review

• By Tim Murphy
• Updated: August 16, 2018

Most boats are nouns; the Maine Cat 38 is a verb — a boat that can be understood only in motion, and preferably under sail with a good breeze blowing.

Last March, I sailed the Maine Cat 38 Tamarack , hull number four, in the Sea of Abaco, Bahamas, with my parents, my college-age daughter and her friend. Meanwhile, one of 2018’s several historic winter storms was blowing through New England and the Canadian Maritimes, sending massive swells down our way and contributing to a squash zone of isobars on our local weather map. In the Abacos, that meant 20-foot seas offshore, rages in the cuts between cays and sustained winds edging toward 30 knots all week. Already on the Monday we flew in, Marsh Harbour’s supermarket shelves were empty of milk and fresh produce; for the next five days, the Bahamian mail boats were forbidden to leave the safety of their docks in Nassau. For us aboard Tamarack , the weather forced us to do all of our sailing inside the Sea of Abaco. But even in this usually protected sound, we encountered seas of 8 to 10 feet, sometimes breaking.

In those conditions, the Maine Cat 38 behaved like no other boat, monohull or multihull, that I’ve ever sailed. “This boat just gets up and frolics,” is how Sue Murphy, my mom, described sailing it.

Dick Vermeulen founded Maine Cat in 1993. Since then, his team of a dozen craftsmen in Midcoast Maine has launched some 140 sail- and powerboats, including 63 30-foot and 24 41-foot sailboats. Recently, Vermeulen created the Maine Cat 38 to return to simpler roots — a boat with no genset, no air conditioning, no microwave oven and just one head; a boat that a single person would be willing to take out sailing, with or without crew. And Vermeulen set himself one other goal: “This boat has to be the fastest cruising cat out there, or I’ve failed at everything I’ve done.” (For details about the genesis of the 38’s design, see “Birth of a Cat,” CW, July 2017.)

For our gang, mere speed wasn’t the priority. Yet the qualitative experience of sailing a boat whose creator took such care to keep the weight out was a revelation to all of us. Tom Murphy, my dad, has worked as a yacht broker for more than 30 years and has made hundreds of coastal and offshore yacht deliveries, often harrowing ones. “The way this boat lifted in 8-foot seas,” he said, “I mean, you’d see a roller coming in, and you’d tense up and steer into it and wait to take the sleigh ride down the back side and bury the bows — and that just never happened. Instead, you’d get up on top of a wave, and it would feel like the wave was flat, and you would just sort of come down with it. No pitch, no roll, no burying the bows or the stern.” Like me, he’d never experienced a boat that felt like this.

Vermeulen is a mechanical engineer by training. The effect he created in this boat is the result of a single-minded commitment to keeping weight out of it, both in the initial build and in the systems that go aboard. He determined that in order to achieve the speeds he was after, he needed 12-to-1 length-to-beam ratios in the hulls. A consequence of that choice is that you can’t then add all the weight of the luxury items you’d find on a typical production catamaran . Narrow hulls lack the buoyancy to carry heavy equipment or big tankage. Unlike similar-size models from high-production builders, the MC 38 isn’t intended to sleep more than five people; there’s just one marine head fitted in one of the hulls; and propulsion is not from twin diesels but from a pair of 9.9hp outboard motors. The galley stove has three burners but no oven. Cabin spaces are ­separated by drapes, not doors.

The construction of the hull and deck is different from that of the high-­production cat builders too. Typically, builders achieve complex curves in sandwich construction by using core that’s scored in slices called kerfs. When you bend a panel of scored foam, the kerfs open up; in the final composite part, the kerfs fill with resin. In a technique Vermeulen saw at Maine builders Hodgdon Yachts and Lyman-Morse, then developed with Gurit Composites, his team “thermoforms” Core-Cell foam in the shape of the final hull; this is unsliced foam, with no kerfs. His team heats the Core-Cell to 165 degrees Fahrenheit in an infrared oven, then infuses the fiberglass and core with vinylester resin. The result is a uniform part, with uniform physical properties. And the weight? “It’s ridiculous,” Vermeulen said. “When we built the first 38 hull, with three bulkheads in it, but 38 feet long, 6 feet wide and 6 feet of depth, it weighed 426 pounds. I could lift the hull out of the cradles.”

“It takes us a little longer to build hulls,” Vermeulen said, “but it’s just bomber.”

The boat we sailed was in charter service, managed by Abaco Multihull Charters based in Hope Town. It was fitted with good-quality cruising sails, but no screacher or full-on performance sails. Our reaching speeds were typically in the 9- and 10-knot range. We put the first reef in at 20 knots; second reef at 25. It tacked easily with both main and roller-furling headsail and both daggerboards down, but struggled to tack under main alone, as most cats will.

Motoring out of Hope Town Harbor into 25 knots and a steep 3-foot chop at 80 percent throttle with the twin 9.9 horsepower outboards, we made just over 3 knots of boat speed and heard the motors cavitate on every third wave or so. In those conditions, the boat felt underpowered. By contrast, in flat water we easily achieved motoring speeds of 6 and 7 knots.

“You probably know the little auxiliary engines on the MC 38 are by design,” Vermeulen said when I described our experience. “When I hear that sailors on other boats are under power 50 percent of the time, I cringe. If I make the engines small enough, MC 38 owners are going to sail all the time. With a screacher or code zero, the MC 38 will sail at 5 knots in 5 knots of true wind. Who needs motors except to dock or drop the hook? The way sailing should be!”

The experience I most enjoyed on the MC 38 was going forward under sail onto the trampolines as we reached past Tahiti Beach under double-reefed main. I lay face-down and watched the hulls move through uncommonly disturbed water. The 38’s leeward hull didn’t dig in; the windward hull didn’t lift out. No wave ever slammed the bridgedeck. The steep chop seldom even reached the longitudinal chine 12 inches above the waterline on each hull.

The Maine Cat 38 is a boat that positively dances through the waves.

CW editor-at-large Tim Murphy is a longtime Boat of the Year judge.

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Maine Cat 30

This cruising catamaran features open living on the bridge deck, above average performance and low maintenance..

The U.S. Sailboat Show in Annapolis, Maryland, held annually in October, exhibits more multihulls than any other American boat show. Many are built in Europe, but the number in this country has increased dramatically during the last decade.

The Maine Cat 30 stands out from the crowd in several ways, the most obvious of which is its open bridge deck. “Why,” one might wonder, “would a boatbuilder in Maine forsake the usually monstrous bridge deck cabin seen on other cruising catamarans?” The builder, Dick Vermeulen, has the answers.

To find our own answers, we test sailed the boat—Dr. Rob Malin’s hull #7, which he keeps in Cotuit, Massachusetts.

Design Designed by Dick Vermuelen, with line fairing assistance from George Dixon at Aerohydra in Southwest Harbor, Maine, the Maine Cat 30 was conceived to provide better performance than cats with tall, heavy bridge deck cabins; those suffer from the added weight and windage. Also, if the designer tries to lower the cabin, he may be forced to drop the bridge deck to make sufficient headroom, but then runs the risk of wave slap on the underside of the bridge deck.

The same sort of compromises are evident in the Maine Cat, except that the hardtop dodger weighs less, isn’t quite as bulky looking, and with the acrylic windows removed has less windage.

The “original” hardtop is a molded fiberglass unit that includes the supports. Later, the “sport” version was developed in which only the top is molded, and is supported by anodized aluminum tubes. With either, the entire bridge deck (cockpit) can be fully enclosed with 40-mil roll-down acrylic windows.

Our first impression was that this 8′ by 11′ area wouldn’t be as cozy as a conventional cabin, that it would be breezy and cold, making the Maine Cat suitable only for warm weather cruising. “The perfect boat for the Florida Keys and Bahamas,” we thought.

During our test sail in cool autumn weather, however, it is evident that when fully enclosed, the bridge deck area is quite snug. Not as cozy as a conventional cabin with lots of cushions and wood trim, but certainly not cold. Indeed, the windows admit a lot of sun, making it a virtual solarium.

The bridge deck has a custom molded steering pedestal aft, two settee seats port and starboard, and forward a convertible dinette (LPG tank under port seat) and molded-in steps to facilitate stepping out of the bridge deck cockpit onto the forward deck.

The permanent sleeping berths, galley and nav station are situated in the port and starboard amas.

Vermeulen describes the ama design by noting their 10:1 length-to-beam ratio, fine entry and generous flare, the latter to reduce spray and to increase room below. The amas have a V-shape forward and semi-circular shapes amidships. A lot of attention was paid to the prismatic coefficients of the amas to keep the bows from burying, but at the same time give them a reasonable entry.

Unlike most cruising catamarans (The Gemini is an exception, with twin centerboards), which rely on stub keels to provide lift and reduce leeway, the Maine Cat has a single daggerboard in the starboard ama. While more expensive to build, and running the risk of damage in a grounding, we think some sort of retractable board is well worth the trouble, giving as it does superior windward sailing performance.

Twin balanced spade rudders do the steering via a custom Edson system that utilizes a rack and pinion gear and solid linkages from the pedestal to each rudderstock. On a monohull, such a system doesn’t provide feedback like a cable-quadrant steering, but on a multihull, which has precious little helm or feel anyway, the Maine Cat system is plenty sensitive and less prone to failure than cable steering.

The ama sterns each have molded steps for access to and from a dinghy. The starboard side has a freshwater showerhead.

Construction The Maine Cat 30 is built of fiberglass with polyester resin and cored with Core-Cell structural linear foam. The lamination schedule is comprised of 1-1/2-oz. mat, two plies of 1605 bi-directional glass with 1/2-oz. mat and .9-oz. mat in each skin. Vermeulen used Core-Cell to build the prototype and tooling. Half-inch A500 Core-Cell is vacuum-bagged with the fiberglass skins to mold all components, including the amas, bridge deck, even interior cabinetry. This makes for lightweight, stiff structures, and also provides some insulating qualities against noise and condensation. Gelcoat is 944 Cook Composites.

A small amount of wood trim is used for handholds and drawers. Several woods are available; our test boat had maple. While the cabins look like the proverbial insides of a refrigerator, they are at the least utilitarian: By removing cushions and personal effects, one could practically hose down the boat inside and out.

The hull-deck joint is entirely glassed over with tri-directional fabric. There is no rubrail to conceal the joint as on conventional boats but is finely finished and impossible to detect on the outside and just barely noticeable on the inside. Vermuelen says its a $5,000 operation, but key to the boat’s clean looks.

In the bow of each ama is a collision bulkhead. These form two flotation chambers that, combined with a third under the master berth and the buoyancy of the core, theoretically would float 12,000 lbs. The ends of the amas are concealed by curtains to reduce weight.

The insides of the boat are mostly painted fiberglass, or in the case of modules, gelcoated surfaces.

All plumbing is done with Whale’s rigid snap-together tubing system.

On deck and below, the various modules are caulked with 3M5200. On our test boat, the owner had unfortunately used bleach as a cleaner, which caused the caulk to yellow.

Accommodations As noted earlier, there is a convertible dinette on the bridgedeck that would be fun to sleep in on humid nights; you can probably get a peek at the stars, too. This berth increases the sleeping capacity of the boat from five (belowdecks) to seven.

The starboard ama has a 56″ x 80″ double berth aft with 20-gallon water tank underneath. Amidships is a counter and general work space, and hanging locker outboard of the daggerboard trunk. Forward is the head with Lavac toilet, sink and shower sump.

In the port ama there is a single berth forward, the galley amidships with double stainless steel sink, Isotherm 12-volt refrigeration system, Seaward two-burner stove top, Bass electrical panel and Cole-Hersee battery selecter switch. Aft is a table and long seat. This is supposed to be the belowdecks gathering spot, but as Rob Malin pointed out, it’s rather awkward to have a conversation with someone sitting next to you. For face-to-face dialogue, you’ll have to go topsides. In any case, the table is hinged so that it can be converted to a berth, but we suspect most people will use it as Malin does, for navigation and a place to mount his laptop computer.

Headroom in the amas is 6′ 3″.

Hatches throughout are Lewmar Ocean series.

There’s a bit of long narrow stowage in the after section of the bridge deck, accessible through a lazarette behind the helm, and from either ama. The steering gear occupies part of this space and is reasonably convenient for maintenance. Similarly, there is another space forward of the bridge deck, again accessed from the amas.

On deck, there are two lockers forward, one for an anchor rode and another for fenders and cleaning supplies.

Between the bows is the tramp, which Malin says has held up well so far.

The dual companionways have arylic drop boards and hinged fiberglass covers; unfortunately, the builder has not yet figured out a way to lock them. Malin said owners are making their own locking mechanisms, sometimes with sliding rods.

Performance We sailed with Dr. Malin on a cool November day off Cape Cod. To furl and cover or uncover the mainsail, you need to stand on the hardtop dodger, which is certainly strong enough. With a lamination schedule similar to the hull, it can easily support the weight of four or five persons and more. Lazy jacks keep the sail from flopping off the boom, but can catch the batten ends when hoisting.

There is a lot of power in the full-battened mainsail, which measures 366 sq. ft. But Malin said the boat doesn’t sail well under main alone. The jib, which furls on a Schaefer 2100 furler, is small at just 134 sq. ft., but makes a big difference, he said. We tried sailing both ways and agree. As soon as the jib was unfurled, we picked up considerable speed.

It’s a bit difficult to get good shape in the jib, which is self-tending on a block and traveler arrangement. A self-vanging CamberSpar would help, but wouldn’t allow furling.

The air was light, so after awhile we furled the jib and rolled out the optional screacher, a lightweight laminated sail that furls on a Schaefer 650 furler—too small for the job, we discovered, when the wind piped up and we had to bring it in. (Vermuelen says it’s the largest furler available for the Kevlar bolt rope in the sail. And, he added, we should not have headed up to furl the sail, but headed off and blanketed the screacher with the mainsail.) But in the meantime, the screacher made a huge difference, enabling us to do about 4-5 knots in 8 knots of breeze. This, of course, is the beauty of a multihull that hasn’t been hogged down with too much gear. Malin said he can carry the screacher up to about 45° to 50° apparent wind.

As the wind rose to about 15 knots, our speed exceeded 8 knots.

Unfortunately, Malin’s KVH wind instruments had just gone down so we were somewhat handicapped. Malin emphasized that one needs to steer this (or most multihulls) with instruments. Upwind, its sweet spot is about 38° to apparent wind, he said.

Monohull sailors may have difficulty understanding the need for instruments. The reason is that there is much less helm on a multihull, so it is difficult to steer a straight course by feeling the pressure on the tiller or wheel. Instead, you need to frequently check the compass, or the apparent wind angle indicator, which Malin has conveniently mounted overhead at the forward end of the hardtop.

Other than the main halyard, all sail controls are handled from the bridge deck, meaning that you don’t have to go on deck or even get wet if it’s raining. But they are located in different places, so if you’re single-handing, you will need to leave the helm for trimming the jib and furling headsails. The mainsheet traveler is right behind the helm, and the screacher sheets lead to blocks on the after ends of the amas, then to winches to either side of the traveler. During our test sail, Malin frequently flipped on the Navico hydraulic belowdeck pilot and purposefully moved from station to station to switch sails or trim them.

All the while, of course, the boat is level. There is, however, a much different motion than on a heavy monohull. It’s quick and at first it feels a bit jerky. When asked if he’d gotten used to it yet, Malin replied. “I don’t like it, but I’ve gotten used to it.” This is true of any comparatively short multihull; beyond about 40 feet, when the hulls can crest two waves at once, the motion settles down considerably.

Once into deeper water, we lowered the daggerboard, which makes a big difference in pointing ability and leeway. It’s a feature we highly favor. It was necessary, however, to come head to wind to get the board up, as any pressure on it makes the chore difficult.

Auxiliary power is provided by twin 9.9-hp. Yahama four-stroke outboard motors, each retractable and hidden under the bridgedeck seats. A 13-gal. fuel tank for each gives a cruising range of about 110 miles at 8 knots and double that at 6.5 knots with just one engine. Being four-strokes, and enclosed, the noise from them is modest. We did, however, notice some shuddering in the hulls from waves occasionally hitting the mounts.

Conclusion There’s much to like about the Maine Cat 30: quality construction, good performance, open bridge deck design that can convert to a weathertight enclosure, and good looks. Nearly all the gear aboard is a cut above what you’ll find on many other production boats, such as the Bass electrical panel, Nexus instruments, Lewmar Superlock rope clutches, Cole-Hersee battery switch, Icom M45 VHF radio, 22-lb. Delta anchor, Siemens 55-watt solar panels, etc.

Like most new boats, the Maine Cat is something of a work in progress, with Vermeulen continually reworking and refining systems. To our mind, areas needing more thought include a better means of shaping the jib, a larger furler on the screacher, interior decor to tone down all the bare white fiberglass, and a means of locking the companionways.

The December 1999 price was $129,990, including sails, outboard motors, stereo, refrigeration and most of the gear mentioned in this review. It’s quite complete. Dinghy davits are optional.

We left our test sail thinking what a great boat the Maine Cat would be for coastal cruising, especially in the subtropics or tropics. For offshore, we believe a larger, longer multihull provides more comfortable motion and the increased righting moments that make passagemaking safe. Price, unfortunately, goes up exponentially with size. Vermeulen says the Maine Cat’s principal competition is the 33′ Seawind 1000, which starts at about $145,000 with sails, and the 33′ 6″ Gemini, which sails away for around $125,000.

Overall, we found the Maine Cat refreshing in its design, easy and fun to sail.

Contact- Maine Cat, PO Box 645, Waldoboro, ME 04572; 207/529-6500.

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Their unique “open design” catamaran was thought to be revolutionary nearly two decades ago. It is now widely emulated by some of the biggest names in catamarans, like Catana and Nautitech. This signature characteristic makes these catamarans appear a lot bigger than it actually is. The layout on the bridgedeck is open with 360-degree visibility from a centralized helm and a hardtop bimini overhead. It is surrounded with roll-down soft sides (acrylic windows) that can instantly transform the bridgedeck from an open patio to an enclosed room, or what Vermuelen calls the “great room.” In 2005 their new Maine Cat 41 was awarded “Boat of the Year” by a panel of judges from Cruising World Magazine, a very proud moment for the company.

New MC 38 Catamaran (Featured Here)

In 2014, Dick Vermuelen designed a brand-new sailing cat, the MC 38, an evolution of his previous designs. In this case the roll-up sides are replaced with a more protected pilothouse, permanent sides, high-aspect daggerboards and retracting rudders. Maine Cat is the only boat builder in the world that is thermoforming the Core-Cell coring to the exact shape of the parts prior to infusing. It makes the boat as strong and light as a carbon built boat but without the expense. It has all the features of a successful catamaran; high performance, great visiblity, outstanding construction detail and backed by a US company that has been building and servicing great boats for 22 years. It is set to be another hit with catamaran fans and we are thrilled to feature their latest design in Catamaran Guru’s Proudly American section. The introductory price for the MCC 38 is $337,000.

Maine Cat’s dedication to quality, good design and sound engineering have helped them become an American icon with a very dedicated following, including us here at Catamaran Guru.

Layout, Specifications and Renderings

Exterior premium ISO-NPG gelcoat with light gray non-skid two tone Composite thermoformed VIC Core Cell SAN closed cell coring Resin infused vinyl ester resin with quadraxial E-glass knit fabrics Composite hardtop roof with two horizontal sliding windows forward sections 316 L stainless horses fore and aft linked to 26” double wire lifeline system Large flush scuppers aft cockpit for self-bailing bridgedeck drainage Bridgedeck flooring to be MarineDeck 2000 9 mm thick composite cork Two (2) large self-draining storage lockers in forward beam Six (6) ten-inch stainless steel mooring cleats and four (4) chocks at bows Total two (2) flush hatches and four (4) portlights, all opening and with screens Two (2) large inboard facing companionway hatches with lockable boards Custom stainless steel stern rail incorporating davits and inboard side rails Two (2) vinyl coated polyester trampolines forward with centerline plank Stainless steel anchor roller, chain tensioner, Rocna 20 kg and 200’ of nylon rode

DAGGERBOARDS AND RUDDERS

High aspect ratio 12 % NACA composite foils, both rudders and boards fully retract Balanced daggerboard style rudders in custom drum bearing system Center Console mounted wheel steering with 360 degree visibility

SPARS & RIGGING

48’ Selden anodized aluminum mast fractionally rigged with double spreaders Includes spinnaker and screacher halyards and single line reefs at two points Gull Striker “A”-frame with compression beam and screacher pole Self-tacking headsail furling system, curved track and car with controls Block and tackle 4:1 cap shroud tensioners included port and starboard Three (3) Harken Radial 46.2 STA two speed self-tailing winches, Spinlock clutches One (1) Harken Radial 46.2 STEA electric self-tailing winch for main halyard Nine (9) foot mainsail traveler track, car and controls mounted on the aft beam Outboard hull mounted chain plates, 316L standing rigging, all running rigging std.

ENGINE AND CONTROLS

Electrical distribution panel with sixteen DC circuit breakers and four AC breakers.

Two (2) 8D Absorbed Glass Mat maintenance-free deep cycle marine batteries Navigational lights including foredeck, anchor, steaming and mast top tricolor. All interior and bridgedeck 12 volt lighting is LED, total ten (10) fixtures; Protected 120-volt inlet shore power plug and three (3) 120-volt outlets. Two (2) 12-volt receptacles and ventilation fans at all berths Solar array of two (2) premium 150-watt solar panels with charge controller Output from engine alternator run to the house battery bank

ELECTRONICS, VHF AND STEREO

Garmin GPS MAP 1040xs chartplotter preloaded with BlueChart g2 coastal maps Garmin GMI 20 display with gWind and depth transducers, all NEMA 2000 network Garmin VHF 200 radio with Metz masthead antenna Garmin GHP Reactor autopilot with class “B” drive protected in aft beam Garmin Metero stereo system, two (2) speaker, remote and iPod dock

STOVE AND REFRIGERATION

Lavac marine vacuum toilet with 20-gallon gravity waste holding tank Two (2) polyethylene fresh water tanks each 31 gallons Four (4) electric automatic bilge pumps with float switches Whale Gulper gray water pump for shower sump pan in head. Hot and cold pressure water at vanity, shower, galley sink and stern shower Precision Temp ShowerMate stainless steel propane fired hot water heater Salt water wash down thru-hull, pump and spigot in forward beam

INTERIOR ACCOMODATIONS AND FINISH

Headroom minimum 6’-3” to maximum of 6’-8”, painted headliners Berths for up to five (5), two (2) very larger doubles aft in each hull, 57” by 6’-8” Large single in port hull forward is 49” wide at the head by 6’-8” long All cushions below decks (total 3 pieces) are 5” thick high-density foam All interior bulkheads are resin infused Core-Cell foam cored painted finish. Cherry-veneered Tricel cored plywood lockers and cabinets per plan March 1, 2014 Solid surface counter tops in galley ½” thick with back splash Amtico-Wood synthetic no-maintenance cabin flooring each hull Large (16’ long) tinted acrylic fixed portlights outboard each hull in cabin topsides Two (2) large sealed air chambers forward each hull accessible from interior cabins Huge fully enclosed molded head on starboard with vanity cabinet, sink, shower, shower sump pump, Lavac marine head and storage cabinet

USCG safety package including: 6 PFD’s, horn, 2 fire extinguishers, flares, four dock lines, Life Sling, and 3 fenders.

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McElbeau | 2005 Maine Cat Catamaran

Deltaville, va, us.

McElbeau | Maine Cat Catamaran 41ft

Us $337,000.

Over the years, we've loved Maine Cat 41's for their open bridgedeck with hard top and full enclosure for great ventilation, excellent visibility and the ability to close it all up for weather.

Owner has authorized a $43,000 price reduction, and McElbeau is now available for only $337,900!  Call now and you can be sailing in the tropics this winter.

McElbeau was built by Maine Cat and Dick Vermeulen. She's been actively sailed from New England to Florida and to the Bahamas. She's well maintained with many recent upgrades.

MC 41's exhibit a good turn of speed and generally outsail the basic charter cats we've become accustomed to.

She's got twin diesel Yanmar engines, Autopilot, Color GPS chartplotter, radar, AIS and VHF radios (2) with RAM Mic. She has a bowsprit to run her Screecher Sail and the Spinnaker. She has BRAND NEW Fully battened Mainsail (9/22) and  Stackpack (9/22)  with Lazy Jacks. Flexofold Props, Great ground tackle, excellent power system including large solar panel array and large Firefly battery bank, electric windlass and she's even got an electric winch, for easy and short handed sailing.

She points high when going to windward with her twin daggerboards down and flies on a broad reach with boards up.

Her interior accommodations are excellent with the starboard hull as owner's suite with massive owners berth, and port hull has a well equipped galley with an equally large VIP berth. She has two marine heads with owners side walk in shower compartment plus crew berth.

If you are looking for a well equipped, well cared for and easy to sail shallow draft vessel with a good turn of speed that will be perfect for warm weather sailing and can handle the cooler northern waters once the salon is buttoned up with her almost new Strataglass enclosure, you owe it to yourself to check out our 2005 Maine Cat 41.

She's in Deltaville Virginia and can be seen by appointment. Don't let this one get away. Call now!

Specifications

• Length: 41ft
• Builder: Maine Cat
• Beam: 23' 0"
• Draft: 7' 0"
• Hull: Fiberglass
• Status: Active

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• Designer: Dick Vermeulen

MEASUREMENTS

• Length Overall: 41 ft
• Max Draft: 7' 0"
• Bridge Clearance Measure: 63' 0"
• Beam Measure: 23' 0"
• Total Power: 58
• Engine Brand: Yanmar
• Year Built: 2005
• Engine Model: 3YM30
• Engine Type: Inboard
• Engine/Fuel Type: Diesel
• Engine Hours: 2500
• Engine Power: 29 hp
• Fresh Water Tanks: 1 (92 Gallons)
• Fuel Tanks: 1 (92 Gallons)

Accommodations

• Number of heads: 2

The Maine Cat 41 sports a large bridgedeck and open cockpit. This is the center of action on the MC 41.

Generous seating aft to port and starboard, and dinette table forward which converts to a queen berth for alfresco sleeping under the screened in salon, or within the confines of the isinglass full enclosure. Two “mate” seats, one to port and the other to starboard and large centrally located helm with large double seat and full controls/instrumentation.

Yachts twice this size cannot boast a cockpit and entertainment area of this size. Well appointed with overhead lights on dimmer switch and courtesy lights at the foot well throughout the cockpit.

To port is a well appointed galley with propane oven and stove, refrigerator and huge freezer. Outboard is a double sink with H/C pressure water. Tremendous storage throughout. Microwave oven included.

Forward is a large queen size berth, full head with shower forward and additional private cabin with large single berth forward.

Starboard hull is the owner’s suite and has large head (with Raritan Elegance Electric Toilet system) aft with walk-in separate shower fully aft. Amidships is seating area, cabinet storage with large queen size owner’s berth. Forward is Navigation area/desk with wood shelving. Fully forward is a private large, single berth which converts to an aft facing seat.

Total sleeping accommodations for 8. The Maine Cat 41 is the only production-built cruising catamaran in the world that provides outstanding sailing and motoring performance, huge payload capacity (7200 pounds) and a unique open bridgedeck design that transforms the entire bridgedeck area into a protected pilothouse. The unique open bridgedeck design is simply a better solution than the typical “floating condo” cat bridegdeck cabin arrangement, and provides superior visibility from the helm with exceptional ventilation throughout the main salon platform. Headroom throughout; 6’8″ minimum. 

Engine(s)/Mechanical/Electrical

Twin Yanmar 3YM30 29 HP Fresh Water cooled engines with approximately 2500 engine hours.

(2) Sail Drive propulsion units: Starboard saildrive replaced with SD 25 in 4/15

Saildrive O Rings replaced 5/22

(2) Flexofold folding props

Control panels w/ tach and audible, visible alarms

Tankage Fuel: 92 USG

Water: 120 USG

Holding Tanks: 2

(2) Engine Alternators

4 solar panels (2) Grape Solar GS Star 180 wattpanels each 720 total hrs. ( New 8/17 )

(2) Victron Solar Panel controllers. One each side. Blue tooth enabled

Two 8 gallon hot water heaters/one each hull.

110 V AC shore power with two 110V outlets.

Tank Tender

Mastervolt inverter

Mastervolt 12/50-3 Chargemaster Plus automatic battery charger ( New 5/22 )

Westach Oil & Temp guages (New 4/22 )

(6) Firefly Oasis MCF G31 Carbon Foam Batteries ( New 7/20 )

Prosafe 50 amp galvanic isolater (New 4/22 )

50 amp breaker and 50ft 50 amp power cord installed ( New 7/19 )

Salt water washdown pump. (4) Electric Bilge Pumps (2) Webasto FCF Platinum 12K BTU Marine Air Conditioning units with reverse cycle (New 7/19) Electronics GPS Garmin Map 5212 Chartplotter and Radar Frigoboat Refrigerator & Freezer (New Evaporator Plate 4/22)

Electronics

Garmin 3010C Color Display Chartplotter and radar

Garmin GMR40 Radar dome

Wind and Depth Instruments New 2016

Standard Horizon Matrix GX 2150 VHF Radio with AIS receiver

ICom IC M05 VHF Radio

Garmin Autopilot head control (New CCU Reactor & ECU Controller 2022 ) with Linear Drive Hydraulic autopilot RAM

Galley Down Port side. Tappan Microwave oven Propane (LPG) Broadwater Marine oven and 4 burner stove. Frigoboat holding plate front loading refrigerator & custom top loading freezer with keel coolers.

Exceptional counter space and storage capacity.

Custom Additional Galley shelf

Stainless steel sink outboard port hull ( New hardware 2/22 ) with H/C domestic water.

(2) Marine Heads Replaced with Electric Flush Raritan Elegance with both fresh water or salt water flush ( NEW 3/14 )Starboard aft owner’s head:

2 Holding tanks

Sink with Hot/Cold Pressure water outboard Raritan Electric Elegance Head Inboard with choice of salt water or fresh water flush

Holding tank Separate full enclosure walk in shower Port head forward; Hot cold pressure water sink, integrated shower and holding tank Raritan Electric Elegance Head Inboard with choice of salt water or fresh water flush Holding tank

Sails and Rig

Sails and Rig- Safe and simple single handed operation and optimum sailing efficiency.

Modest sail plan coupled with the huge form stability of the 23 foot beam allows safe sailing in higher wind speeds before shortening of sail is required. Very Good Condition.

Mainsail brand new 9/22 never sailed . Full batten, Evolution/Ullman hi performancedacron

Self Tacking 100% Jib on Schaefer 3100 roller furler. Very Good Condition.

Screacher on Harken Reflex continuous line furler ( New in 2021 )

Carbon Fiber custom reinforced retractable bowsprit

Code Zero Harken continuous line furler

Asymmetrical Spinnaker (never flown) with sock in Very Good Condition.

New mainsheet (5/19) , New jibsheet (6/22)

Added Toggle to both lower main shrouds ( New 4/16 )

(3)Lewmar 50 Self tailing winches

(1) Electric Lewmar 50 Self tailing Winch Hull and Deck Hardtop with full Markalon & Strataglass enclosure ( NEW 1/21 ) and opening overhead ports for ventilation

Hull and Deck

Trampolines forward with catwalk on centerline for secure footing when working at the bow. Very practical, safe handgrabs around perimeter of hard top.

Tramps replaced June 2019

Viewing seats on each bow ( installed 2/22 )

Strataglass enclosure ( NEW 1/21 ) and opening overhead ports for ventilation

Texteline shade covers for strataglass  New 2021

Cockpit cushions. 50′ AC power

Stainless steel barbeque

Antenna guards

Strikeshield lightning Protection System

Four oversized Lewmar 50’s and a fifth Electric Winch.

Stainless stern rail Stainless steel lifeline system

Stern Cockpit shower

66lb Manson Supreme anchor with 5/16″ High test chain and Nylon Rode Max anchor with chain and Nylon rode Fortresss FX 125 Storm anchor with rode

Lewmar electric windlass

Fiorintono Sea Drogue s Doc1

Marine fire extinguishers

Davis windex 15

Stern 2 step swim ladder

Twin Daggerboards

Reinforced stern deck platform for dinghy storage 6/16

Vented locker for Propane/LPG tank

Bottom Painted 6/21 with Seahawk Talon Paint

Owners personal gear, tools and effects do not convey in this sale.

Dinghy and outboard are not included

Disclaimer The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.

The Multihull Company is pleased to assist you in the purchase of this vessel though the vessel may be listed with another brokerage company.

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1996 Maine Cat MC 22

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Seller's Description

1996 Maine Cat 22 Catamaran. Fun and fast daysailer. Designed by Dick Newick and built by Dick Vermeulen of Maine Cat Catamarans (hull 16 of 22). Price to sell. Could use paint but otherwise ready to go. 13 Foot beam folds along the centerline to 8’6” for trailering. (trailer not included- I only trailered it twice) Solid bridgedeck makes it feel like a larger cat. Rudder Craft kick up rudders pivot on gas struts. Kick up centerboards reduce draft to 11”. Full batten main and jib in good condition.

Equipment: 2015 Lehr Propane 5hp Long Shaft Outboard - Low hours Viking Composite 17lb propane tank Mauri Pro stack pack style main sail cover Rudder Craft Rudders - Unifoil B Kick Up

Rig and Sails

Auxilary power, accomodations, calculations.

The theoretical maximum speed that a displacement hull can move efficiently through the water is determined by it's waterline length and displacement. It may be unable to reach this speed if the boat is underpowered or heavily loaded, though it may exceed this speed given enough power. Read more.

Classic hull speed formula:

Hull Speed = 1.34 x √LWL

Max Speed/Length ratio = 8.26 ÷ Displacement/Length ratio .311 Hull Speed = Max Speed/Length ratio x √LWL

Sail Area / Displacement Ratio

A measure of the power of the sails relative to the weight of the boat. The higher the number, the higher the performance, but the harder the boat will be to handle. This ratio is a "non-dimensional" value that facilitates comparisons between boats of different types and sizes. Read more.

SA/D = SA ÷ (D ÷ 64) 2/3

• SA : Sail area in square feet, derived by adding the mainsail area to 100% of the foretriangle area (the lateral area above the deck between the mast and the forestay).
• D : Displacement in pounds.

Ballast / Displacement Ratio

A measure of the stability of a boat's hull that suggests how well a monohull will stand up to its sails. The ballast displacement ratio indicates how much of the weight of a boat is placed for maximum stability against capsizing and is an indicator of stiffness and resistance to capsize.

Ballast / Displacement * 100

Displacement / Length Ratio

A measure of the weight of the boat relative to it's length at the waterline. The higher a boat’s D/L ratio, the more easily it will carry a load and the more comfortable its motion will be. The lower a boat's ratio is, the less power it takes to drive the boat to its nominal hull speed or beyond. Read more.

D/L = (D ÷ 2240) ÷ (0.01 x LWL)³

• D: Displacement of the boat in pounds.
• LWL: Waterline length in feet

Comfort Ratio

This ratio assess how quickly and abruptly a boat’s hull reacts to waves in a significant seaway, these being the elements of a boat’s motion most likely to cause seasickness. Read more.

Comfort ratio = D ÷ (.65 x (.7 LWL + .3 LOA) x Beam 1.33 )

• D: Displacement of the boat in pounds
• LOA: Length overall in feet
• Beam: Width of boat at the widest point in feet

Capsize Screening Formula

This formula attempts to indicate whether a given boat might be too wide and light to readily right itself after being overturned in extreme conditions. Read more.

CSV = Beam ÷ ³√(D / 64)

Folding system brings beam to 8.5’.

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Maine Cat 22, 22' folding catamaran

By dick newick, links to maine cat 22 pages:.

• About The Sail Boat Tomales Bay Sailing
• Maine Cat 22 (brokerage, specs)
• Perry Design Review: Maine Cat 22 A cat that's fast and keeps you dry
• I Want to Go Fast and Party Too (Maine Cat 22) forum discussion

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18526 Catamaran Drive,  Humble, TX 77346

Single Family

Tracey Bogan

Kimberly Edwards

Fyi Realty - Humble

713-395-4975

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September 24, 2024, 08:06 PM

About This Home

Nestled in the serene woods of Walden, this spacious two-story house boasts 5-bed 3.5-bath, offering ample space for comfortable living.The grandeur of the home is apparent upon entering the expansive living room, adorned with towering ceilings that amplify natural light through the new windows. Adjacent is the dining room perfect for hosting family dinners. The family room boast an open floor plan and the kitchen is culinary delight, designed with ample counter space and storage, allowing for meal preparation and dining. The Oversized primary bedroom is a sanctuary of relaxation, featuring luxurious amenities and a tranquil atmosphere. Upstairs , a game room awaits, complete with a pool table for hours of entertainment. The built in Office next to the game room adds a comfortable space to work. The remaining 4 bedrooms provide flexibility and comfort for family or guess. Outside offers endless opportunities for outdoor recreation and leisure. Come and see this home today!

Built in 2005

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$115 per Sq. Ft.

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3,384 Sq. Ft.

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