Two greys going blue
In trying to understand important concepts like fuel efficiency and engine sizing, there are advantages to not having experience with a particular boat. People often try and generalise from what they know, so if they know a particular boat or two they will believe that most boats will be the same. In my case, ignorance could be a benefit…
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:
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…
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:
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.
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:
Blue Nomads 