Winter 2003 Issue

On the Cover: The New NauticBlue 464 has three spacious levels and a huge flybridge! Check out the article!

Contents:

Editorial - The “Train” Keeps Rollin’

A Daring Photo Contest
 

Featured Products:
• Seagull® IV “LTF” Designer Series Water Purifier
• Marinco® Cable Clips Keep Shore Power Under Control
• Craig Catamaran Corporation’s CraigCat
• Teleflex Morse’s KE
• Simpson’s New Swiveling Davits
• Kohler Power Systems 3.5EFOZ/4EOZ
 

News Briefs:
• C-MAP NT+ Electronic Charts to Guide Coast Guard
• Michel Agency Lands World Class Catamarans
• A New Wave of Power Cats

Twin Vee is Expanding
Twin Vee currently builds eight sizes and fourteen different models of power catamarans

Power Cats Down Under
The new Alaskan 460 by Schionning Designs challenges the popular concept of trawler yachts

 
Jutson 39 Seeks N. American Production Builder
The 39 reflects Jutson’s unique design sense in this field which combines proven seaworthiness and miserly fuel usage with a visual appeal that is both fresh and practical

 
The Power Cat of the Future is Here – Now!
MP&S has expanded onto the worldwide market by appointing Multihull Yacht Sales as its master distributor

Multicap 54 Moves 100 passengers at 20 Knots!
This 54-foot cat will be starting construction at Quai Ouest as soon as sufficient space has been freed

The KSS and the VIP
KSS claims – hulls in half the time or less, and full structures in half the time or less with cost savings. The VIP allows us to avoid both the smell and most of the resin handling of laminating

Kelsall 61
Offshore Power Cruisers
Kelsall discusses how twin hulls are just as appropriate for power as they are for sail

Three Power Cats for the USA
Roger Hill Yacht Design has recently launched three power cats which will make their way to the USA. Built for three very experienced and particular clients, this range of vessels offers a unique snapshot of current multi design and technology

Ride the Rough Waves
Catamarans New Zealand is building the first 5500 Sportscruiser – An entirely new 55-foot all-weather production sportsfisher and luxury cruising power cat. This vessel will be the ultimate sports craft

News from Durban: Prowler 450 and 400
Charter Cats just keeps getting bigger and better

 
The Perfect Caribbean Vacation
NauticBlue power yacht vacations recently celebrated its first-year anniversary at the Abacos, Bahamas and in St. Thomas

Durability Beats Fashion
Barbara Hanson discusses how boat owners choose longevity over cosmetics

Pocket Cruiser
Clyde Nix and family took a trip to the Bahamas in their MC 30, which saved them a considerable amount of money in fuel consumption

The Unsinkable Motor Cat
Most multihull manufacturers claim that their boats are unsinkable, which may be true, but nobody has proved it as convincingly as the Motorcat people

Mission 338
I Have a Mission
Aluminum cats are being built for those who need a dependable and strong water vehicle

Shearwater
The first custom-designed scientific research vessel will be used, primarily, as a research platform

US Navy’s Superfast Catamaran
This cat has four powerful jets that can drive the wave-piercing hulls at a top speed of 45 knots, fully loaded

Song Without Words, or Pictures Without Text
Asante Yachten of Germany builds aluminum cats

What It Takes to Develop a New Boat Model
The story behind Glacier Bay’s 3470 Ocean Runner