Hello, I'd like to pick your brains on the subject. We are fairly experinced sailors, much more on monos than multis but have done quite a few trips on cats as well. W have owned a
Cyclades 39.3 which is selling right now. We plan to do a 3 year RTW starting from Canary Islands; it will be September 2019 with myself, my wife and our 2
kids age 3 and 6. Now, we have to choose the
boat. After much
head scratching we ended up with the
Lagoon 380 (pre- S2) or an early Super Maramu. While there is a substantial lenght difference, they both offer similar living space. The
Lagoon will be a simple craft, equipped with
solar panels, simple 12V
watermaker, no
generator. Super Maramu is heavy on systems, has a
generator, heck even the
sails are raised by
electric motors. However, the cruising community is mostly very positive about the Maramu. The
price is similar at about 170k EUR ready to go.
Maintenance I guess will be similar since the cat has 2 engines, althrough they are much smaller. So, which one would you choose and why? I know it's mostly down to personal preferences but I'm looking forward to learn from your comments.