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26-10-2009, 18:18
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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Boat: Catalac Catamaran
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Mystery Boat?
I've been looking at this boat for a couple for years and still have no idea what it is or the history behind it. This weekend, I had my camera and snapped a couple of photos exiting the Port Canaveral lock.
This is as large a photo that fit's on the frame, so I'll put a blowup at:
http://www.catamaransite.com/mystery_cat.html
Any ideas?
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26-10-2009, 18:29
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Fort Myers FL
Boat: Irwin 40
Posts: 878
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Is it the boat from the movie water world? I last saw that at universal studios theme park so it is the right location just hard to tell from that angle.
Wayne Canning, AMS
projectboatzen.com
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26-10-2009, 19:05
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Largo, Florida
Boat: Bruce Roberts Offshore 38
Posts: 268
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That was a TRI
This liiks like something built for speed. Maybe something custom?
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26-10-2009, 19:38
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: In transit ( Texas to wherever the wind blows us)
Boat: Pacific Seacraft a Crealock 34
Posts: 4,115
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By the look of her companionway hatch/door, she was a serious offshore racer. Someone needs to put some love back into that boat.
Erika
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27-10-2009, 01:13
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Registered User

Join Date: May 2008
Location: We're technically refugees from our home in Yemen now living in Lebenon
Boat: 1978 CT48
Posts: 5,970
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Extra cool looking boat...I agree with Erika, she needs saving....the boat, not Erika!
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27-10-2009, 06:01
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: St. Georges, Bda
Boat: Rhodes Reliant 41ft
Posts: 4,131
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A Dick Newick design?
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27-10-2009, 06:33
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Orlando, FL
Boat: PDQ 32 DogHouse
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I'v been looking at that same boat for a few years too. Every now and then I see someone working on it and they always wave and seem freindly but too far away for conversation.
I also noticed that the bottom of one of the hulls was cut out with a large window air conditioner installed. Looks like this beauty will be on land for quite a while.
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27-10-2009, 06:50
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cruiser
Join Date: Aug 2005
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I always see it from the water but I'm not very clear on how to find the boat by car.
I was hoping someone on the forum would recognize what is obviously a unique design and tell us what we're looking at!!
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27-10-2009, 07:52
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Eastern Tennessee
Boat: Research vessel for a university, retired now.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tropic Cat
I always see it from the water but I'm not very clear on how to find the boat by car.
I was hoping someone on the forum would recognize what is obviously a unique design and tell us what we're looking at!!
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Note its Lat and Long the next time you pass it. Then use Google Earth to find out which roads lead to it.
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Life begins where land ends.
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27-10-2009, 07:55
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Eternal Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Las Brisas Panama AGAIN!
Boat: Simpson, Catamaran, 46ft. IMAGINE
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This is a cat I would take into the southern ocean. I saw a very similiar cat in St. Maarten. They just look FAST sitting still.........i2f
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27-10-2009, 09:19
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2007
Boat: Privilege 482
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27-10-2009, 10:09
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cruiser
Join Date: Aug 2005
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Boat: Catalac Catamaran
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That's the boat.
My apologies, I should have been clearer. I know the roads, heck I live here. It's on private property a ways in from the road. I could beach my Cat and hop off right next to this boat, but couldn't get to it by land.
I agree the boat looks fast, yet how could it be?
I see a single drive leg with a small prop, and what appears to be no possibility of a sailing rig. I mean how would you go forward when it's under way? From the position of the hull, that prop must barely touch flat water.
It's a bit confusing.
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27-10-2009, 10:56
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Vancouver, BC & Seattle, WA
Posts: 635
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It looks a bit like an early Kelsall Fastcat Design.
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27-10-2009, 11:06
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Vancouver, BC & Seattle, WA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tropic Cat
I see a single drive leg with a small prop, and what appears to be no possibility of a sailing rig. I mean how would you go forward when it's under way? From the position of the hull, that prop must barely touch flat water.
It's a bit confusing.
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That drive leg looks to be a gimbaled outboard that remains suspended when not in use. There appears to be a pivot spindle just above it. I'd imagine there are safety tramps between the center pod and the ama's, and you go forward atop the pod. Judging by the height of the solar bimini/platform, and the slope of the pod - I'd say the mast is stepped not very far forward of that companion way door.
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27-10-2009, 11:13
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Cruising NC, FL, Bahamas, TCI & VIs
Boat: 1964 Pearson Ariel 'Faith' / Pearson 424, sv Emerald Tide
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Did you happen to see any little green men standing around it?
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