Fall 1999 Issue

Fall 1999 Issue

On the Cover: The Venturer 44 from Australia

Contents:

News Briefs:
• Honda Moved
• On-Line Boat Stores
• Powerboat Competition, Challenge 2000
• Retailer and Publisher Team up with Boatscape.com

Featured Products:
• Catcraft 23 makes US Debut
• Nautica International Introduces US-Built RIB Catamaran
• Car Skates
• Teleflex Marine's TFXREME
• Wesbar's Bearing Saver
• Teleflex Fog-Free Instruments
• Austal Delivers 44 m Cruising Cat
• THE CAT Ferry
• Wright/Lavranos 65' Passenger Ferry
• 144' Catalina Jet
• 132' Klondike Express

When Namesakes Meet
Three Glacier Bay catamarans cruise from Washington to Glacier Bay

Displaning
Planing or Displacement Hulls? Peter Brady examines the options

Single Engine Operation on Twin-Engine Vessels 21
Capt. Graham Pfister saves you fuel – and money!

Batteries for Cats

Erebus 50
A Trawler from Malcolm Tennant

More Designs from Down Under
Big cats from Wright/Lavranos, a report by Neville Solley

Cool Cats of Chile
Alwoplast builds awesome boats

Testing the Nautico 18
Using a fishing boat as a photo vessel

Carolina Cat
Some details you want to know

World Cat Breaks New York-Bermuda Record
780 miles in 29 hours, 19 minutes

Driving the Twin Vee
Testing the Twin Vee 22 on the Chesapeake

Greenland 34
Fountaine Pajot’s Maryland 37

The TransCat 42
Alliaura’s TransCat 48 has a little sister.

Venturer 38
The Venturer 44 also has a little sister – What’s going on, here?

Innovation 60
A brand-new boat (nobody’s sister)

Show Stoppers
A photo essay by Charles K. Chiodi about power cats he encountered at the Annapolis Power Multihull Lagoon and the Miami Boat Show:
• Prout Panther 64 – jet drive, hydrofoils
• Maryland 37 – sexy French lady, a trawler
• Aqua Cruiser 55 – pontoon boats are cats, too!
• Venturer 38 – Australian kangaroo, er... cat
• Endeavour TrawlerCat – sister, to a sailing cat
• Comet – wouldn’t mind having one
• CraigCat – more than a toy, not quite a "yacht"
• Hydrocat 3000 – a center console or cuddy cabin
• Baha – largest cockpit in the show
• CatCraft – the "new cat on the block"
• Glacier Bay – has feature story in this issue
• Kevlacat – Australian cat built in the USA
• Seagulls and Nauticos – we tested the Nautico 18
• Twin Vee – they are "Outrageous" and "Awesome"
• World Cat – new record winner on Bermuda run
• Benchmark 36 – a very serious fishing craft