Hi Shankly,
Welcome to the forum. We live in
Norway and sail an
Fountaine Pajot Belize 43 out of Fredrikstad (south east coast).
One of the challenges with a cat is
heating during
winter. This last one beeing absolutely outrages when climate's concerned.
To make a cat livable during the
winter months I believe extra
insulation is a must to compensate in the areas not constructed with sandwich. I have insulated underneath the
deck areas with a special
insulation used on
cooling systems, 19mm Armaflex. This prevents
condensation in the
hull areas.
Additionally I have made "cusions" of bubble wrap in several layers to fight
condensation on hatches with aluminium
hatch frames.
Heating with Eberspacher as indicated is a good choice, but two instead of three would suffice, we got one in our
Belize but ideally should be two.
When it comes to your gally down option I would advise against it, this is a favour of the Australians but not so common i
Europe. Lots of discussions of this on the
Multihull section of the forum.
Since we've only had FP's, first an Athena 38 and now a
Belize I would recommend the
Belize 43 Maestro. This has the starboard
hull dedicated to the owners with a great
head wich can accomodate a
washing machine.
In north east US you can find a well equipped Maestro, which are mostly well equipped from their owners as they are nearly always privately owned and never chartered.
If you want to discuss in detail send me a PM and we can get in touch.
Happy lead free sailin
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