Hello Georgs and Power catters, Thanks for asking. I wrote something about the Gecko Gecko on the Trawler list about 5 years ago and never thought about re-introducing her when you started the Power cat list. Designer, builder etc.: The Euphorie 40 was built by Jeantot Marine in France. Now Alliaura Marine http://www.alliaura.com/ they also manufacture the Privilege sailing Catamarans and the TransCat power catamaran. The Gecko Gecko is a 1992 Model which I purchased in St. Marteen in May 2000. She is Hull 155( I do not know if they started at 1 or 100 or 154). I think they use the same mold for the hulls of the Transcat that they currently make. They made a Euphorie 44 that is really the same boat with a hull extension. They still made the Euphorie in 2000 but now the only power cat they make is the Transcat. I think the Naval architect is Marc Lombard. If someone wants to find out more about her visit my website www.geckoyachtcharters.com. She is a very high tech boat with Kevlar glass in critical points and light weight materials through out. The systems are very well put together and kind of easy to diagnosis (knowing French would help). I have added a 110V system through some large step down transformers. I also kept the 240V system in tack so we can go just about anywhere. We added Solar Panels so that we can leave the freezer and refrig running when we leave her for a couple of days or if someone knocks the shorepower cable out. I upgraded the watermaker and just about everything else. I added a fly bridge enclosure because contrary to popular belief it can be cold in Southern California. Why did we pick a Euphorie: I have always been a catamaran nut from the first outrigger sailing catamaran I built in high school in the early 60's and kept behind the Santa Monica breakwater to owning one of the first Hobie 14s. We had a Snowgoose 37 sailing cat when we lived in Scotland in the 80s. When we returned to California we had a Defever trawler for many years but when my daughters reached middle school age we needed something a bit faster to get us back and forth to our mooring at Emerald Bay on Catalina Island and meet their school requirements. I saw a Euphorie 40 at the San Diego boat show in 1992 or 93 when they were first introduced and loved the layout of the boat and it being a catamaran I liked the stability features but thought it was out of our price range. Emerald Bay can be a rather bumpy anchorage so we wanted a vessel that did not roll much (I had to use 5 flopper stoppers on our Defever 41), the Gecko Gecko with her 22 foot beam sits there like a card table. In 2000 I spotted the Gecko Gecko on the internet and on a lark contact the Catamaran Company that at one time listed her for sale. We negotiated, I cashed in some air miles and went and took a look in St Martin. She had been on the hard for 3 years while the previous owner decided weather to sell or keep her after the Charter Company that had been maintaining her folded. She needed a lot of work. I spent 2 months putting her back together with the idea of going to Ft. Lauderdale on her own bottom. But we ran out of time before Hurricane season so I took her to St. Thomas and put her on a Dockwise vessel to Florida. In Florida we did a lot more work on her while also cruising the Bahamas and the Keys every couple of weeks flying from California. After 8 months in Ft Lauderdale area, we put her on another Dockwise vessel and took her to Southern Mexico. From there I brought her to Huntington Beach, California. Where I have pretty much finished getting her together (if you can ever do that to a boat) We ended up replacing the original engines that I had been nursing along. Which was a real challenge because of their location in the middle of each hull with out easy access. Under the Galley on the port side and under the Salon settee on the Starboard. Aesthetically the boat has a unique kind of look, kind of like a sportfisher, I am not real wild about the slopped foredeck and would prefer more of a traditional square house type of look, but overall we are very pleased with her and some day when the kids are off to college hope to take her to the PNW for a bit and then back to Mexico before the Grand kids start showing up. Available for charter: Yes, she is available for skippered charters in Southern California waters. Randy Boelsems Gecko Gecko 1992 Euphorie 40 Huntington Beach, CA > Hey, Randy! > > How about a few lines of information about Euphorie? > > Who was the designer? Builder? How many have been built? Are they > still in production? > > What attracted you to Euphorie over other makes? > > Do you still offer charters on your boat? > > --Georgs > -- > Georgs Kolesnikovs > Power Catamaran World > http://www.powercatamaranworld.com > > >