I added up what a family of six actually puts on a 50-foot cat and got 3,350 kg. The Outremer 51 I like best is rated for 2,700. Here's how I'm dealing with the gap.
Somebody spent five years and what looks like six figures fixing everything I'd worry about, and now I have to decide if I believe the paperwork.
Nineteen Lagoon 450s on one brokerage page, split cleanly into charter and never-chartered. I itemized where the price gap goes, and it is almost exactly the refit bill.
Cannes opens Tuesday with the Lagoon 47, FP 48, Outremer 48 and five others going in the water. I re-sorted all eight by the number the brochures bury, and it's the only ranking that tells you what each boat is actually for.
The upgrade list on this one is honest work — it's the two words missing from it that set my offer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
