Seawind 1190 Catamaran

[scarlet]

Originally Posted by scarlet

I have a friend who just took possession of a seawind in Vietnam. The quality has really gone down since they moved their production from Australia.

So many things went wrong... sails and rigging failure.. faulty fuel gages caused them to run out of fuel (off the coast of Bali.. ) engine failure... etc.. etc.. etc.. They took possession in Feb... made it to Darwin. (despite failures) spent weeks there trying to have Seawind make warrenty repairs.

I always thought they were a good cat... But After their experience.. I would not consider them.

Just as an aside... hate the helm (having to look through the salon).

anyway... I was very disappointed in their experience.. I hope you have better luck.

Follow up:

I have recently received information regarding this whole situation with my friend's Seawind. It appears that much of the problems can be attributed to inexperience, and poor planning on the part of the owners... And cannot be attributed directly to Seawind.. I've also found out that Seawind has taken care of all of the issues for them....

[downunder]

Originally Posted by scarlet

Follow up:

I have recently received information regarding this whole situation with my friend's Seawind. It appears that much of the problems can be attributed to inexperience, and poor planning on the part of the owners... And cannot be attributed directly to Seawind.. I've also found out that Seawind has taken care of all of the issues for them....

As suggested by comments earlier.

[Yihang]

A 1190 was washed out to sea recently in australia and recovered 50km from it's mooring. Some footage of it in breakers. No one onboard the whole time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlgU2ITIY5I