I'm new to the list also, and figured I'd take a moment to introduce myself. My husband and I are long-time cruising folks, most recently on a 38' Tradewinds trawler; past boats include a 34' Catalina sailboat and 36' Mainship. We've cruised all over the northeast, and completed the Great Loop in 2006. Some of our cruise logs (and other stuff) can be found at our website www.GoldenTrawler.com. At the end of the Loop we decided to sell the trawler for two reasons; first, we'd had her for eight years, knew all her foibles and knew that if we were going to keep her she needed some significant maintenance due to her soft decks and leaky salon windows. And second, we already were enamored with catamarans and heartily sick of the trawler's rolling. We decided we either needed stabilizers or a cat, and we figure a cat is a simpler solution. We currently have a World Cat 266 SC with twin 200 Yamaha HPDIs - great boat for day trips in our local area of southwest Florida. We call it our "go to the beach boat" - and it rides comfortably in all types of weather. As I keep telling all my friends, one ride on our World Cat (especially in choppy conditions) and you'll sell your monohull in a heartbeat. In the next year or two, when the stars align, we plan on purchasing a power catamaran and head out cruising again. We'd like to do the Loop again and spend a winter or two in the Bahamas; and if I can talk my husband into it, I'd like to do the Down East Loop. Top boats on the wish list right now are the PDQ 34 and the Endeavour 38. However, due to financial constraints, the boat we're most likely to end up with - at least at this point - is an Endeavour 36. It's not the ideal layout for us, but the prices are significantly less than the other two boats I mention. Every once in a while we flirt with the idea of the TomCat 255 (Georgs, I know you love yours and have enjoyed reading TomCat Tales). Because it's trailerable it would open up a lot of cruising grounds that we wouldn't likely get to on the larger trawlers. However, its size is - for us at least - problematic as a long-term live-aboard. Still, the idea of towing cross-country to Lake Powell or up to the San Juan Islands is intriguing. I look forward to learning more about power cats - and if anyone has anything constructive - pro or con - about the boats I mentioned, I'm eager to hear it. Thank you! Paige Caldwell Email: MPonGolden@gmail.com Golden's travels: www.GoldenTrawler.com Our rental cottage on Saba: www.OurSabaCottage.com =================================================================== From: Georgs Kolesnikovs <gxk@earthlink.net> To: Power Catamaran List <power-catamaran@lists.samurai.com> Subject: [PCW] New member intro Message-ID: <B6854B4F-2268-4DEF-ACD5-94578D0482A3@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Welcome, Mark Mather! If you care to, Mark, how about a few words of introduction about yourself? What's your interest in power catamarans? What's your background in boating? Glad to have you aboard. --Georgs Georgs Kolesnikovs Power Catamaran World http://www.powercatworld.com

Welcome aboard, Paige! Much appreciate you taking the time to introduce yourself. Email can be so impersonal that it's great to know something about the denizens of this list. Perhaps you'll inspire others to introduce themselves. --Listmaster Georgs On 13-Oct-09, at 10:29 AM, Paige Caldwell wrote: > I'm new to the list also, and figured I'd take a moment to introduce > myself. > > My husband and I are long-time cruising folks, most recently on a 38' > Tradewinds trawler; past boats include a 34' Catalina sailboat and 36' > Mainship. We've cruised all over the northeast, and completed the > Great > Loop in 2006. Some of our cruise logs (and other stuff) can be > found at our > website www.GoldenTrawler.com. At the end of the Loop we decided > to sell > the trawler for two reasons; first, we'd had her for eight years, > knew all > her foibles and knew that if we were going to keep her she needed some > significant maintenance due to her soft decks and leaky salon > windows. And > second, we already were enamored with catamarans and heartily sick > of the > trawler's rolling. We decided we either needed stabilizers or a > cat, and we > figure a cat is a simpler solution. > > We currently have a World Cat 266 SC with twin 200 Yamaha HPDIs - > great boat > for day trips in our local area of southwest Florida. We call it > our "go to > the beach boat" - and it rides comfortably in all types of weather. > As I > keep telling all my friends, one ride on our World Cat (especially > in choppy > conditions) and you'll sell your monohull in a heartbeat. > > In the next year or two, when the stars align, we plan on purchasing > a power > catamaran and head out cruising again. We'd like to do the Loop > again and > spend a winter or two in the Bahamas; and if I can talk my husband > into it, > I'd like to do the Down East Loop. Top boats on the wish list right > now are > the PDQ 34 and the Endeavour 38. However, due to financial > constraints, the > boat we're most likely to end up with - at least at this point - is an > Endeavour 36. It's not the ideal layout for us, but the prices are > significantly less than the other two boats I mention. > > Every once in a while we flirt with the idea of the TomCat 255 > (Georgs, I > know you love yours and have enjoyed reading TomCat Tales). Because > it's > trailerable it would open up a lot of cruising grounds that we > wouldn't > likely get to on the larger trawlers. However, its size is - for us > at > least - problematic as a long-term live-aboard. Still, the idea of > towing > cross-country to Lake Powell or up to the San Juan Islands is > intriguing. > > I look forward to learning more about power cats - and if anyone has > anything constructive - pro or con - about the boats I mentioned, > I'm eager > to hear it. > > Thank you! > > Paige Caldwell > Email: MPonGolden@gmail.com > Golden's travels: www.GoldenTrawler.com > Our rental cottage on Saba: www.OurSabaCottage.com