Couldn't you ahve just gone to a pet store???

OzOne wrote in message news

I'm a cat owner!

After a bit of negotiating, and the owners thinking about my new offer
over Christmas, I got a fax a few hours back to say he has accepted
the offer.
My agent has paid the deposit and I'll be off tomorrow afternoon to
take posession, have her craned out and get one of the diesels
overhauled, and find someone reliable to look after her till after the
cyclone season passes.
The wife is rapt, I phoned the kids in Val d'Isere and my son said
"That's too cool" my daughter said "**** no! that's great, when are
you gonna get it, can we have a party on it when we get home"..all in
one breath.


Oz1...of the 3 twins.

I welcome you to crackerbox palace,We've been expecting you.

OzOne wrote:
I'm a cat owner!


Aww-right! Sounds like you & your family will really enjoy the new boat.
Congrats!

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

katysails wrote:
Couldn't you ahve just gone to a pet store???


Maybe they don't have pet stores in Oz?

OzOne wrote in message
news

I'm a cat owner!

After a bit of negotiating, and the owners thinking about my new
offer over Christmas, I got a fax a few hours back to say he has
accepted the offer.
My agent has paid the deposit and I'll be off tomorrow afternoon
to take posession, have her craned out and get one of the diesels
overhauled, and find someone reliable to look after her till
after the cyclone season passes.
The wife is rapt, I phoned the kids in Val d'Isere and my son said
"That's too cool" my daughter said "**** no! that's great, when
are you gonna get it, can we have a party on it when we get
home"..all in one breath.


Oz1...of the 3 twins.

I welcome you to crackerbox palace,We've been expecting you.

Sounds great! Details please....

--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

OzOne wrote in message news

I'm a cat owner!

After a bit of negotiating, and the owners thinking about my new offer
over Christmas, I got a fax a few hours back to say he has accepted
the offer.
My agent has paid the deposit and I'll be off tomorrow afternoon to
take posession, have her craned out and get one of the diesels
overhauled, and find someone reliable to look after her till after the
cyclone season passes.
The wife is rapt, I phoned the kids in Val d'Isere and my son said
"That's too cool" my daughter said "**** no! that's great, when are
you gonna get it, can we have a party on it when we get home"..all in
one breath.


Oz1...of the 3 twins.

I welcome you to crackerbox palace,We've been expecting you.

Boring. Just another motorboat with a mast. A floating hotel. A farce.
A danger to real sailing vessels.

CN


OzOne wrote in message ...
This design is pretty close to the designer's dream; a client who
wants exactly what the designer would like to achieve without any
personal limitations.

The accommodation is fairly standard with the four double cabin
layout. There is good headroom forward so one could easily have an
en-suite in one of the forward cabins as a second head/shower.

The beam allows a good navigation station to port at the same level as
the saloon keeping this nice and social for letter writing, homework
etc. With windows directly in front, visibility will be very good
forward and yet still have 360 degree all round vision.

Hatches forward in the saloon give good airflow through the saloon and
cockpit, the opening windows in the bulkhead and doors give a good
indoor/outdoor feel to saloon and cockpit.

The galley is down to starboard. The aft cabin has an option of 2
single berths with 'walk in' privacy or a 'dive through' big double
bunk.

Headroom in the hulls is 1950mm and 1900mm in the bridgedeck cabin,
bridgedeck clearance is 800mm at minimum to avoid slamming.

To port we have the double cabin forward with queen size double bunk
which has good sitting headroom in the bunk. In the mid section is the
hobbies/computer area or additional bunk if required. Aft is a good
sized head and shower.

The motors are either two 28hp diesel's or two 35hp Honda 4 stroke
outboards in wells sliding up and down on vertical tracks. Diesels
will be standard shaft drives with feathering self pitching Aeroprops
to reduce drag while sailing.

Sail control is very simple with a roller furling genoa and reacher
set permanently on the prodder. Because of the long overhangs forward,
the prodder will not have to be demounted in marinas. The mainsail is
fully battened with lazyjacks, all control lines are led aft to the
cockpit, halyards and single line reefing appear at the central winch
station aft, therefore using only one winch and a series of clutches.
Two large self tailers control the Reacher sheets from aft and the
Genoa sheets are led down from the cabin top to the cockpit. This is a
very simple cost effective system which will make single handing very
safe and easy, never needing to go on deck while sailing or reefing.

A large sliding and lifting hatch is set in the cockpit shade roof to
allow one to see the main while raising and lowering or setting her
while sailing. With a large wheel set centrally and a steering seat
which houses the motor controls able to raise and lower, one can see
clearly through the saloon windows when in the down position or have
better visibility in the up position with one's head and shoulders
above the cabin top and yet still have the wheel and controls at hand.

The hatch offers shade over one's head should you prefer steering
while sailing.

The long hulls give the luxury of a very good waterline beam to length
ratio making her very easily driven with very low drag figures and yet
simply because of the long length she can carry a very good load with
only 400mm of maximum draft.

We really have an 11.6m(38') cat nestling inside 14.8m (48.5') hulls,
the beam is moderate at 7.6m giving normal access to marina berths and
yet because of her good stability figures (especially fore and aft,
usually a weak area) she can carry a moderate, easy to manage 18m
mast, giving a loaded Bruce No. of 1.45 and unloaded Bruce No. of
almost 1.6. This means she'll be a very good light air performance cat
and when coupled with the low drag hulls with a W/L Beam:Length ratio
of 14.6 stationary and 16.1 moving, produces a very safe, fast
cruising cat.

Our client's requirement is for a cat which will get him home when the
wind picks up to 20-30 knots head on, he can't afford the time to
leave her and come back later to sail her home.

Even though she seems a rather extreme boat for the general public,
she appealed to three more buyers, 2 local and one overseas, two will
be professionally built and the other two home built by the owners.

Construction will be strip Durakore® planking with Durakore® sheet for
flat panels and bulkheads. Internal furniture and non structural
bulkheads will be Featherlight® honeycomb panels.

Epoxy resin and knitted cloth reinforcing make her strong and easy to
build. She'll be very cost effective to build as she is really only an
11.6m cat, the extra hull length does not add much extra cost. The
moderate beam keeps internal volume in proportion and the small rig
does not increase sail and winch sizes above normal.

She'll certainly be an exciting boat to sail and make effortless ocean
passages. When kept light she'll give some racing cats a bit of a
scare.

A large sliding and lifting hatch is set in the cockpit shade roof to
allow one to see the main while raising and lowering or setting her
while sailing. With a large wheel set centrally and a steering seat
which houses the motor controls able to raise and lower, one can see
clearly through the saloon windows when in the down position or have
better visibility in the up position with one's head and shoulders
above the cabin top and yet still have the wheel and controls at hand.

The hatch offers shade over one's head should you prefer steering
while sailing.

The long hulls give the luxury of a very good waterline beam to length
ratio making her very easily driven with very low drag figures and yet
simply because of the long length she can carry a very good load with
only 400mm of maximum draft.

We really have an 11.6m(38') cat nestling inside 14.8m (48.5') hulls,
the beam is moderate at 7.6m giving normal access to marina berths and
yet because of her good stability figures (especially fore and aft,
usually a weak area) she can carry a moderate, easy to manage 18m
mast, giving a loaded Bruce No. of 1.45 and unloaded Bruce No. of
almost 1.6. This means she'll be a very good light air performance cat
and when coupled with the low drag hulls with a W/L Beam:Length ratio
of 14.6 stationary and 16.1 moving, produces a very safe, fast
cruising cat.

Our client's requirement is for a cat which will get him home when the
wind picks up to 20-30 knots head on, he can't afford the time to
leave her and come back later to sail her home.

Even though she seems a rather extreme boat for the general public,
she appealed to three more buyers, 2 local and one overseas, two will
be professionally built and the other two home built by the owners.

Construction will be strip Durakore® planking with Durakore® sheet for
flat panels and bulkheads. Internal furniture and non structural
bulkheads will be Featherlight® honeycomb panels.

Epoxy resin and knitted cloth reinforcing make her strong and easy to
build. She'll be very cost effective to build as she is really only an
11.6m cat, the extra hull length does not add much extra cost. The
moderate beam keeps internal volume in proportion and the small rig
does not increase sail and winch sizes above normal.

She'll certainly be an exciting boat to sail and make effortless ocean
passages. When kept light she'll give some racing cats a bit of a
scare.


Oz1...of the 3 twins.

I welcome you to crackerbox palace,We've been expecting you.

I prefer galley up. It takes up some space in the main salon, but it's nice
to have external vis when cooking and serving.

--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

OzOne wrote in message ...
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:41:09 -0800, "JG"
scribbled thusly:

Sounds great! Details please....

This pretty much covers it
This design is pretty close to the designer's dream; a client who
wants exactly what the designer would like to achieve without any
personal limitations.

The accommodation is fairly standard with the four double cabin
layout. There is good headroom forward so one could easily have an
en-suite in one of the forward cabins as a second head/shower.

The beam allows a good navigation station to port at the same level as
the saloon keeping this nice and social for letter writing, homework
etc. With windows directly in front, visibility will be very good
forward and yet still have 360 degree all round vision.

Hatches forward in the saloon give good airflow through the saloon and
cockpit, the opening windows in the bulkhead and doors give a good
indoor/outdoor feel to saloon and cockpit.

The galley is down to starboard. The aft cabin has an option of 2
single berths with 'walk in' privacy or a 'dive through' big double
bunk.

Headroom in the hulls is 1950mm and 1900mm in the bridgedeck cabin,
bridgedeck clearance is 800mm at minimum to avoid slamming.

To port we have the double cabin forward with queen size double bunk
which has good sitting headroom in the bunk. In the mid section is the
hobbies/computer area or additional bunk if required. Aft is a good
sized head and shower.

The motors are either two 28hp diesel's or two 35hp Honda 4 stroke
outboards in wells sliding up and down on vertical tracks. Diesels
will be standard shaft drives with feathering self pitching Aeroprops
to reduce drag while sailing.

Sail control is very simple with a roller furling genoa and reacher
set permanently on the prodder. Because of the long overhangs forward,
the prodder will not have to be demounted in marinas. The mainsail is
fully battened with lazyjacks, all control lines are led aft to the
cockpit, halyards and single line reefing appear at the central winch
station aft, therefore using only one winch and a series of clutches.
Two large self tailers control the Reacher sheets from aft and the
Genoa sheets are led down from the cabin top to the cockpit. This is a
very simple cost effective system which will make single handing very
safe and easy, never needing to go on deck while sailing or reefing.

A large sliding and lifting hatch is set in the cockpit shade roof to
allow one to see the main while raising and lowering or setting her
while sailing. With a large wheel set centrally and a steering seat
which houses the motor controls able to raise and lower, one can see
clearly through the saloon windows when in the down position or have
better visibility in the up position with one's head and shoulders
above the cabin top and yet still have the wheel and controls at hand.

The hatch offers shade over one's head should you prefer steering
while sailing.

The long hulls give the luxury of a very good waterline beam to length
ratio making her very easily driven with very low drag figures and yet
simply because of the long length she can carry a very good load with
only 400mm of maximum draft.

We really have an 11.6m(38') cat nestling inside 14.8m (48.5') hulls,
the beam is moderate at 7.6m giving normal access to marina berths and
yet because of her good stability figures (especially fore and aft,
usually a weak area) she can carry a moderate, easy to manage 18m
mast, giving a loaded Bruce No. of 1.45 and unloaded Bruce No. of
almost 1.6. This means she'll be a very good light air performance cat
and when coupled with the low drag hulls with a W/L Beam:Length ratio
of 14.6 stationary and 16.1 moving, produces a very safe, fast
cruising cat.

Our client's requirement is for a cat which will get him home when the
wind picks up to 20-30 knots head on, he can't afford the time to
leave her and come back later to sail her home.

Even though she seems a rather extreme boat for the general public,
she appealed to three more buyers, 2 local and one overseas, two will
be professionally built and the other two home built by the owners.

Construction will be strip Durakore® planking with Durakore® sheet for
flat panels and bulkheads. Internal furniture and non structural
bulkheads will be Featherlight® honeycomb panels.

Epoxy resin and knitted cloth reinforcing make her strong and easy to
build. She'll be very cost effective to build as she is really only an
11.6m cat, the extra hull length does not add much extra cost. The
moderate beam keeps internal volume in proportion and the small rig
does not increase sail and winch sizes above normal.

She'll certainly be an exciting boat to sail and make effortless ocean
passages. When kept light she'll give some racing cats a bit of a
scare.

A large sliding and lifting hatch is set in the cockpit shade roof to
allow one to see the main while raising and lowering or setting her
while sailing. With a large wheel set centrally and a steering seat
which houses the motor controls able to raise and lower, one can see
clearly through the saloon windows when in the down position or have
better visibility in the up position with one's head and shoulders
above the cabin top and yet still have the wheel and controls at hand.

The hatch offers shade over one's head should you prefer steering
while sailing.

The long hulls give the luxury of a very good waterline beam to length
ratio making her very easily driven with very low drag figures and yet
simply because of the long length she can carry a very good load with
only 400mm of maximum draft.

We really have an 11.6m(38') cat nestling inside 14.8m (48.5') hulls,
the beam is moderate at 7.6m giving normal access to marina berths and
yet because of her good stability figures (especially fore and aft,
usually a weak area) she can carry a moderate, easy to manage 18m
mast, giving a loaded Bruce No. of 1.45 and unloaded Bruce No. of
almost 1.6. This means she'll be a very good light air performance cat
and when coupled with the low drag hulls with a W/L Beam:Length ratio
of 14.6 stationary and 16.1 moving, produces a very safe, fast
cruising cat.

Our client's requirement is for a cat which will get him home when the
wind picks up to 20-30 knots head on, he can't afford the time to
leave her and come back later to sail her home.

Even though she seems a rather extreme boat for the general public,
she appealed to three more buyers, 2 local and one overseas, two will
be professionally built and the other two home built by the owners.

Construction will be strip Durakore® planking with Durakore® sheet for
flat panels and bulkheads. Internal furniture and non structural
bulkheads will be Featherlight® honeycomb panels.

Epoxy resin and knitted cloth reinforcing make her strong and easy to
build. She'll be very cost effective to build as she is really only an
11.6m cat, the extra hull length does not add much extra cost. The
moderate beam keeps internal volume in proportion and the small rig
does not increase sail and winch sizes above normal.

She'll certainly be an exciting boat to sail and make effortless ocean
passages. When kept light she'll give some racing cats a bit of a
scare.


Oz1...of the 3 twins.

I welcome you to crackerbox palace,We've been expecting you.

"Capt. Neal®" wrote in message
...
Boring. Just another motorboat with a mast. A floating hotel. A farce.
A danger to real sailing vessels.

CN

Definitely not a danger to your vesssel.

Bwahhahahahahhahahhahahahhahahahhahaha

John Cairns



OzOne wrote in message
...
This design is pretty close to the designer's dream; a client who
wants exactly what the designer would like to achieve without any
personal limitations.

The accommodation is fairly standard with the four double cabin
layout. There is good headroom forward so one could easily have an
en-suite in one of the forward cabins as a second head/shower.

The beam allows a good navigation station to port at the same level as
the saloon keeping this nice and social for letter writing, homework
etc. With windows directly in front, visibility will be very good
forward and yet still have 360 degree all round vision.

Hatches forward in the saloon give good airflow through the saloon and
cockpit, the opening windows in the bulkhead and doors give a good
indoor/outdoor feel to saloon and cockpit.

The galley is down to starboard. The aft cabin has an option of 2
single berths with 'walk in' privacy or a 'dive through' big double
bunk.

Headroom in the hulls is 1950mm and 1900mm in the bridgedeck cabin,
bridgedeck clearance is 800mm at minimum to avoid slamming.

To port we have the double cabin forward with queen size double bunk
which has good sitting headroom in the bunk. In the mid section is the
hobbies/computer area or additional bunk if required. Aft is a good
sized head and shower.

The motors are either two 28hp diesel's or two 35hp Honda 4 stroke
outboards in wells sliding up and down on vertical tracks. Diesels
will be standard shaft drives with feathering self pitching Aeroprops
to reduce drag while sailing.

Sail control is very simple with a roller furling genoa and reacher
set permanently on the prodder. Because of the long overhangs forward,
the prodder will not have to be demounted in marinas. The mainsail is
fully battened with lazyjacks, all control lines are led aft to the
cockpit, halyards and single line reefing appear at the central winch
station aft, therefore using only one winch and a series of clutches.
Two large self tailers control the Reacher sheets from aft and the
Genoa sheets are led down from the cabin top to the cockpit. This is a
very simple cost effective system which will make single handing very
safe and easy, never needing to go on deck while sailing or reefing.

A large sliding and lifting hatch is set in the cockpit shade roof to
allow one to see the main while raising and lowering or setting her
while sailing. With a large wheel set centrally and a steering seat
which houses the motor controls able to raise and lower, one can see
clearly through the saloon windows when in the down position or have
better visibility in the up position with one's head and shoulders
above the cabin top and yet still have the wheel and controls at hand.

The hatch offers shade over one's head should you prefer steering
while sailing.

The long hulls give the luxury of a very good waterline beam to length
ratio making her very easily driven with very low drag figures and yet
simply because of the long length she can carry a very good load with
only 400mm of maximum draft.

We really have an 11.6m(38') cat nestling inside 14.8m (48.5') hulls,
the beam is moderate at 7.6m giving normal access to marina berths and
yet because of her good stability figures (especially fore and aft,
usually a weak area) she can carry a moderate, easy to manage 18m
mast, giving a loaded Bruce No. of 1.45 and unloaded Bruce No. of
almost 1.6. This means she'll be a very good light air performance cat
and when coupled with the low drag hulls with a W/L Beam:Length ratio
of 14.6 stationary and 16.1 moving, produces a very safe, fast
cruising cat.

Our client's requirement is for a cat which will get him home when the
wind picks up to 20-30 knots head on, he can't afford the time to
leave her and come back later to sail her home.

Even though she seems a rather extreme boat for the general public,
she appealed to three more buyers, 2 local and one overseas, two will
be professionally built and the other two home built by the owners.

Construction will be strip Durakore® planking with Durakore® sheet for
flat panels and bulkheads. Internal furniture and non structural
bulkheads will be Featherlight® honeycomb panels.

Epoxy resin and knitted cloth reinforcing make her strong and easy to
build. She'll be very cost effective to build as she is really only an
11.6m cat, the extra hull length does not add much extra cost. The
moderate beam keeps internal volume in proportion and the small rig
does not increase sail and winch sizes above normal.

She'll certainly be an exciting boat to sail and make effortless ocean
passages. When kept light she'll give some racing cats a bit of a
scare.

A large sliding and lifting hatch is set in the cockpit shade roof to
allow one to see the main while raising and lowering or setting her
while sailing. With a large wheel set centrally and a steering seat
which houses the motor controls able to raise and lower, one can see
clearly through the saloon windows when in the down position or have
better visibility in the up position with one's head and shoulders
above the cabin top and yet still have the wheel and controls at hand.

The hatch offers shade over one's head should you prefer steering
while sailing.

The long hulls give the luxury of a very good waterline beam to length
ratio making her very easily driven with very low drag figures and yet
simply because of the long length she can carry a very good load with
only 400mm of maximum draft.

We really have an 11.6m(38') cat nestling inside 14.8m (48.5') hulls,
the beam is moderate at 7.6m giving normal access to marina berths and
yet because of her good stability figures (especially fore and aft,
usually a weak area) she can carry a moderate, easy to manage 18m
mast, giving a loaded Bruce No. of 1.45 and unloaded Bruce No. of
almost 1.6. This means she'll be a very good light air performance cat
and when coupled with the low drag hulls with a W/L Beam:Length ratio
of 14.6 stationary and 16.1 moving, produces a very safe, fast
cruising cat.

Our client's requirement is for a cat which will get him home when the
wind picks up to 20-30 knots head on, he can't afford the time to
leave her and come back later to sail her home.

Even though she seems a rather extreme boat for the general public,
she appealed to three more buyers, 2 local and one overseas, two will
be professionally built and the other two home built by the owners.

Construction will be strip Durakore® planking with Durakore® sheet for
flat panels and bulkheads. Internal furniture and non structural
bulkheads will be Featherlight® honeycomb panels.

Epoxy resin and knitted cloth reinforcing make her strong and easy to
build. She'll be very cost effective to build as she is really only an
11.6m cat, the extra hull length does not add much extra cost. The
moderate beam keeps internal volume in proportion and the small rig
does not increase sail and winch sizes above normal.

She'll certainly be an exciting boat to sail and make effortless ocean
passages. When kept light she'll give some racing cats a bit of a
scare.


Oz1...of the 3 twins.

I welcome you to crackerbox palace,We've been expecting you.

Good on you, Oz;

Happy Sailing!!!

Have a question; On a Cat that size, do you ever fly a hull on purpose?

I'll be waiting for your report on the shake down.

Happy for you,
Ole Thom
P/S pictures if you can

OzOne wrote:
You'll be waiting a while.
I might get to take her out when I get there ( leaving tomorrow), but
it all depends on weather and availability of a crane to lift her out.

Good luck with all that.

What sort of delivery voyage will it be? Bringing her home yourself?


Happy for you,


Thanks Thom, I'll take some pics when I get there and plonk em on the
net when I get back.

Looking forward to seeing them!

DSK

OzOne wrote in message

I'm a cat owner!

My sympathies. Dogs are ever so much easier keepers.

After a bit of negotiating, and the owners thinking about my new offer
over Christmas, I got a fax a few hours back to say he has accepted
the offer.
My agent has paid the deposit and I'll be off tomorrow afternoon to
take posession, have her craned out and get one of the diesels
overhauled, and find someone reliable to look after her till after the
cyclone season passes.

Wow. You must have some rather bodacious felines there down under.
Diesels? Ours just purr on rare occasions.

The wife is rapt, I phoned the kids in Val d'Isere and my son said
"That's too cool" my daughter said "**** no! that's great, when are
you gonna get it, can we have a party on it when we get home"..all in
one breath.

The kids are skiing and you didn't go along? Tsk, tsk.

Kidding aside, what sort of cat is this one? Any particular brand, like one
of the French mfrs., or is it a custom design?


Max