Saturday, January 31, 2009

An Ocean Cruising Cat'


Working with Albert Nazarov again, I've been developing a new addition to the RB range of power and sailing catamarans. The RB45 Blue Water is an obvious evolution of one of our first collaborations, the RB45 motor sailer, launched a couple of years ago. However, this latest design is intended for long passage-making offshore, with better performance under sail but still a high degree of interior comfort and load-carrying capacity.
Its aesthetics have also been refined, with obvious styling notes taken from current high performance European multihulled cruiser-racers. The relatively high-aspect cutter rig is easily managed by two people and yet still offers plenty of sail area for the light winds of the Asian tropics. The open deck spaces aft are expansive and well shaded.
Construction is expected to begin in just a couple of months.

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