Beth Leonard sorts cruising budgets into three tiers, and re-sorting our worksheet into her columns made it obvious which one our short list of boats actually lives in.
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.
On a monohull the JSD is solved physics. On a cat you have two transoms, two snatch loads, and a bridle geometry nobody quite agrees on.
Same four-cabin layout as the Saba 50, $100K cheaper — until you cost out the saildrive bellows, the rig service, and the sails the charter program never replaced.
The Bermuda-to-Azores window in late May is a high you want parked, a low you want predictable, and a 500mb chart I'd rather see flat than amplified.
A 2015 Saba 50 came across my desk this week — the layout is right for our family of six, but the bridge deck question is still the one I can't answer from the broker's email.
Behan Gifford argues you should optimize the boat for the 90% case, not the worst night — and with four kids and a 50-foot deck, that's making me rethink the layout question.
I tracked 47 catamaran sales for six months and the spread between Lagoon and Outremer haircuts is wider than supply alone explains.
Three watermakers, three failure modes, and I still don't know which one I want at 200 miles offshore with four kids aboard.
The 3,000-mile leg from Galapagos to the Marquesas hinges on one GRIB pattern I keep watching.
A French listing, ten-year-old standing rigging, and a refit math problem I'd rather solve before falling in love with the hull.
