The survey is reportedly going well, and responses from everyone is very positive.
Nothing much to say here yet, but here is a new photo of her:
Tag: buying
Power catamaran choices (part 2)
Continuing on from Part 1… except this time I’m not giving comments on suitability. Merely that these are the boats we looked at online. Essentially they were either too expensive, too wide, not ocean-going, or all three!
There’s lots of brands I looked at, from all over the globe…
Power catamaran choices (part 1)
There are quite a few candidate power catamarans that could do what we want (see Buying a boat (background) ). This page goes through many of the options we looked at (and discarded).
To remind us all, our requirements are:
- ability to go through canals of France and Europe
- ability to go to different cruising areas, especially Mediterranean, Great Loop (USA), Pacific NW, Asia, Australia-NZ
- liveaboard
- electrifiable
- power catamaran
Summary
It turns out that the hardest part to find is narrowness (<5m) and air height (<3.4m) for French canals, combined with size for ocean crossings. Almost everything else can be found in various combinations.
Buying a boat (background)
We have been looking around for an appropriate boat for some time to become blue nomads. Our requirements are likely very different to others, but are mainly:
- Power catamaran
- ability to go through the canals of France and Europe
- ability to go to different cruising areas, especially Mediterranean, Great Loop (USA), Pacific NW, Asia, Australia-NZ
- electrifiable
- liveaboard
Blue Nomads 