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Catamaran & Multihull Store
Tweet Catch up on the latest catamaran books, products and accessories related to South African multihull sector including navigation, sailing, education and boat building.
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Gunboat 66 Catamaran: “SugarDaddy” Saves The Day At Fanning Island
Tweet Many visitors will remember Gunboat Catamaran’s famous 66′ build, “Sugar Daddy,” a past winner of the Heineken Regatta in the Caribbean. Owners Bruce and Nora Slayden took their prized possession on an ocean “wanderlust” with a bunch of their family to the North pacific — the first GunBoat to venture into this sprawling ocean. For a while the family maintained an entertaining blog and then went off the ‘web’ radar around March 25, 2009 with their final post “The REESSTTT of the story”. A recent blog entry by Kym & Stu, a monohull couple sailing back from the United States to Australia, briefly mention an encounter with Bruce and…
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Catamaran Posters
Tweet Check out our hand-picked selection of catamaran sailing posters. Plus, we also have beautiful photographs of Cape Town, Langebaan, Durban, Knysna and more. If you would like to showcase your poster or painting on catamaran.co.za — let us know — we are just an email away! Buy Posters at AllPosters.com
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Tim & Susan Mahoney cross Atlantic on Knysna 480 catamaran
Tweet Tim and Susan Mahoney recently completed a 6,000 mile trip from Cape Town to the Caribbean putting their Kynsna Catamaran 480 “Flamingo” through some serious stress-testing including reaching speeds of 19.6 knots while sliding down the face of a big ocean wave. Tim and Susan Mahoney are the Catamaran Marquee International dealers for North and Central America and launched “Flamingo” on 2nd February at the Knysna Waterfront. Their “log book” on the Knysna Catamarans website says the ultimate goal of their cross-ocean voyage was to reach Grenada in time to fly to Seattle for their daughter’s college graduation and allow their anxious crew to get home as well. The…
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105ft Racing Trimaran Eyes Cape To Rio Race in 2011
Tweet The Royal Cape Yacht Club reports in their May 2010 newsletter that the legendary Cape 2 Rio Race scheduled for January 2011 has already generated 14 requests for entry forms including interest from Oman Sailing and their 105ft racing Trimaran, Majan. Named Majan, after the ancient name for Oman, Oman Sail’s new flagship, reportedly is a speed demon with a crew member commenting: “Majan is incredible: we moved from 20 – 30 knots in one gust of wind. We now look forward to showing the world what she can do!” And, the world better watch out — especially other teams in the Cape To Rio race! The Royal Cape…
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Luxury Power Catamaran Charters in Cape Town – The Pride of Dean Cats
Tweet While South Africa is not considered the world’s top catamaran charter destination, it undeniably offers some of the most dramatic sailing landscapes and spectacular settings — especially Cape Town. Tigger 2 Cape Town Charters takes full advantage of these natural selling points by adding luxury catamaran cruises to the mix aboard two separate 50-foot mega power catamarans that symbolize the construction genius of Dean Catamarans, one of Africa’s oldest boat builders. The company has been in operation for over 14 years and offer Tigger 2, a 53 foot catamaran cruiser that caters up to 45 guests and includes 2 onboard lounges, 2 sundecks and a 42 inch plasma screen…
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Sabbex appoints Jason Bell as Project Manager
Tweet The South African Boatbuilders Export Council (SABBEX) has recently announced the appointment of Jason Bell as new Project Manager for the group. He takes over from Veda Raubenheimer who stepped down as CEO to focus attention on her work for CTBi and the soon-to-be-established National Boating Association. She had been with the Export Council for four years. According to the SABBEX website Jason brings with him 15 years of international trade and marketing experience, having spent 8 years with the US Trade and Development agency and having handled various African infrastructure projects and the marketing of US goods and services in sub-Saharan Africa. He will direct all SABBEX’s international…
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Namibian Catamaran Day Charters in Walvis Bay
Tweet It’s interesting to see catamaran charters slowly spread through Southern Africa. Sun Sail Catamarans (No relation to Sunsail in the U.S) offer daily dolphin cruises out of the Walvis Bay Lagoon, Namibia. The cruise takes place 2 hours before sunset and explores Bird Island and Seal Colonies at Pelican Point. Oysters and Champagne are served at Sunset and the cruises are N$40 per person. Private Charters are also offered. While details are hard to come by it appears that the catamarans are about 50 feet in length and seat 50 passengers. Looks like they have about four in operation. They appear to have purchased their cats from a Cape…
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Lila-Lou’s “Curvelle: Giant luxury Catamaran
Tweet Ok, we could not resist including this item, even though the connection to South Africa is slightly nebulous. LILA-LOU, a yacht design studio based in London, recently released details of their 33-meter motor catamaran: the Curvelle 33X9. This is the same firm that built 8 penthouses in Cape Town, South Africa. Their website states that the studio is currently working on the interior design of the Curvelle range of fractional ownership superyachts, and the conceptual exterior and interior styling of motor and sailing yachts between 45m-108m.
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The Maverick 400 shines again at SABBEX award ceremony
Tweet The South African Boatbuilders Export Council, SABBEX, reports in their May 2010 newsletter that Rudi Pretorius of Maverick Yachts was awarded the Best Sailing Craft for the Maverick 400. This is the second consecutive win for the model. The ceremony took place at the 2nd Annual African Boating Conference, hosted at Crystal Towers Hotel on April 15-16, 2010. The also report that Peter Cheales, the founder off the world’s largest customer review website, Hello Peter, gave a feature presentation. Sabbex also reported that they were present at the Miami Boat Show earlier this year although with a much smaller contingent of manufacturers due to prevailing economic conditions. If you…
