Research Notes
The $575,000 Catana 47 with a $200,000 receipt and no new sails
The upgrade list on this one is honest work — it's the two words missing from it that set my offer.
Research Notes
A boat I'm watching: a 2020 Outremer 51 in Newport for $1.15M
A lightly used carbon-rigged Outremer 51 just surfaced in Newport at about 55 cents on the new-boat dollar, and I keep coming back to the listing.
Gear
The $40,000 downwind wardrobe: what I'd actually order for our 50-foot cat
The most popular downwind sail in the ARC fleet disappointed three out of four owners who counted on it. Here's what I'd order instead, with prices.
Catamaran
The hybrid-drive math I ran when Seawind announced the electric 1270
Seawind is putting electric drives in the 1270 next year, and I spent a week trying to talk myself into wanting them. The spreadsheet keeps sending me back to diesel — just not the diesel boat you're picturing.
Research Notes
Half the new ARC boats are multihulls — and the side of the trade I keep underweighting
If the new-build mix has been roughly half multihulls for years and the used market hasn't fully caught up, the resale math on a 2028 catamaran purchase looks different than the brokers are pricing today.
Catamaran
The dinghy spec for our family of six — and the four constraints that killed the obvious choices
Six people in a dinghy is two trips, an overload, or a different dinghy than the one you thought you wanted. Nine months of pencil work and four constraints later, here is what I am buying.
Gear
The ground tackle I'm specifying for our 50-foot family cat — anchor, chain, windlass, and where I'd overspend
Real product names, real weights, real prices. The ground tackle list I'm building before the boat — and where I'd spend more than the chart says to.
Ownership
What a Five-Year Family Circumnavigation Actually Costs (And Why $1M Doesn't Cover It)
Most cruising-cost articles are written by someone who hasn't owned the boat. Here's the honest five-year number for a family of six on a 50-foot catamaran.
Catamaran
Daggerboards or Keels: The Cat Decision I Keep Going Back and Forth On
On a cruising cat, lateral resistance is the choice you make once and pay for in maintenance, draft, anchorage selection, and resale for as long as you own the boat. Three months into our worksheet, I keep moving — here's the case for both, and where I think we'll land.
Catamaran
International Multihull Show 2026: What's Actually New on the Docks
The biggest multihull show ever doesn't tell you much by itself. The trends in the boats moored four-deep at La Grande-Motte do.