From: Mark mark424x@yahoo.com
Date: 2006/05/04 to AM 12:22:00 CEST
To: Power Catamaran List power-catamaran@lists.samurai.com
Dmne: Re: [PCW] the availability of cats

Just a thought, what about adding a foil (e.g. hysucat) to the TomCat, that would give you a little more swell clearance at speed, dampen the chop a bit, and perhaps allow you to run with smaller engines/less fuel.

Bob Austin thataway4@cox.net wrote: Paul,
This is what I have also been looking for.  Jeff Seigel had mentioned the
Buzzards Bay 33 but this has a 12 foot beam, and costs $280,000 base price.  I
have inquired, but they are not at all interested in a smaller version.

The Buzzard Bay 33 has a queen sized bed in the center and entrances on each
side--one of which is the head and shower and is available with or without a
wall on the head size.  We are interested in a bunk we can get into from each
side (so we are not crawling over.  It also has a pilothouse, with a good
sized galley and L shaped settee/table.

The MC 30 has a crawl in bunk, no pilot house, and is over 9' beam.

The Glacier Bay is a good hull;  there was a 25 built around the late 90's
which has a bunk in the middle, but no real galley or pilot house.  The older
Glacier Bay's have a slightly different hull (no "tracking pads")--which
apparently makes a difference in handling.  One of the beauties of the Glacier
Bay, is that there is a "walk around" deck wide enough to really walk on--but
that takes a foot out of the cabin width and thus the dinette, galley and
storage are less.  The idea of extending the cabin on the Glacier Bay has
occured to us, but most of the older boats have two stroke engines and by the
time the modifications are made and the new engines are purchased, the cost
becomes considerable...

We are going to sea trial a second TomCat 255 tomarrow--this has Suziki's
150's. The boat is light, with no compressor in the stern or dive tanks.
Hopefully we will find some chop and maybe some swells and see what trimming
the boat bow down does.  Even the dealer admits that the boat is noisey in any
chop from impact of the waves on the flat sections of the hull.

Bob Austin

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Paul and Bob
Look at the all new MC920. Weight is under 2000 pounds and beam is
less than 94. You can get it with a closed cabin. Price with two
outboards or one 130-160 diesel is about 135000 USD. www.motorcat.com
Hakan Widmark

Paul and Bob
Look at the all new MC920. Weight is under 2000 pounds and beam is
less than 94. You can get it with a closed cabin. Price with two
outboards or one 130-160 diesel is about 135000 USD. www.motorcat.com
Hakan Widmark

From: Mark mark424x@yahoo.com
Date: 2006/05/04 to AM 12:22:00 CEST
To: Power Catamaran List power-catamaran@lists.samurai.com
Dmne: Re: [PCW] the availability of cats

Just a thought, what about adding a foil (e.g. hysucat) to the TomCat, that would give you a little more swell clearance at speed, dampen the chop a bit, and perhaps allow you to run with smaller engines/less fuel.

Bob Austin thataway4@cox.net wrote: Paul,
This is what I have also been looking for.  Jeff Seigel had mentioned the
Buzzards Bay 33 but this has a 12 foot beam, and costs $280,000 base price.  I
have inquired, but they are not at all interested in a smaller version.

The Buzzard Bay 33 has a queen sized bed in the center and entrances on each
side--one of which is the head and shower and is available with or without a
wall on the head size.  We are interested in a bunk we can get into from each
side (so we are not crawling over.  It also has a pilothouse, with a good
sized galley and L shaped settee/table.

The MC 30 has a crawl in bunk, no pilot house, and is over 9' beam.

The Glacier Bay is a good hull;  there was a 25 built around the late 90's
which has a bunk in the middle, but no real galley or pilot house.  The older
Glacier Bay's have a slightly different hull (no "tracking pads")--which
apparently makes a difference in handling.  One of the beauties of the Glacier
Bay, is that there is a "walk around" deck wide enough to really walk on--but
that takes a foot out of the cabin width and thus the dinette, galley and
storage are less.  The idea of extending the cabin on the Glacier Bay has
occured to us, but most of the older boats have two stroke engines and by the
time the modifications are made and the new engines are purchased, the cost
becomes considerable...

We are going to sea trial a second TomCat 255 tomarrow--this has Suziki's
150's. The boat is light, with no compressor in the stern or dive tanks.
Hopefully we will find some chop and maybe some swells and see what trimming
the boat bow down does.  Even the dealer admits that the boat is noisey in any
chop from impact of the waves on the flat sections of the hull.

Bob Austin

Power-Catamaran Mailing List

Power-Catamaran Mailing List

Paul and Bob
Look at the all new MC920. Weight is under 2000 pounds and beam is less

Hakan Widmark

Paul and Bob

Look at the all new MC920. Weight is under 2000 pounds and beam is less

Hakan Widmark

-----Original Message-----
From: Craig > Tomash

Can someone comment on the single diesel??  Why single and not
one in each  hull?