I didn't know that the design team from Nacra lived at the north sea. Ofcourse I have heard from Peter Vink, but Morrelli/Melvin is located in USA as far as I know.

With regard to Holland at the north sea, I should explain that our coastline is maybe not more then about 300 km. You cannot just go with your trailer to the beach and sail away.

All the entrances to the beach are normally locked for motorized traffic;. So you have to be a member of a coastal sailing-society and leave your cat the whole season on the beach.
In wintertime the beach has to be cleared by lawregulations.

There are 14 of such coastal sailing-societies with about average of 30 to 40 cats. So totally about 600-700 cats on the beach.
From that total at least half of the members only sails with eastern landwind, so flat sea, no waves and breakage.

Leaves about max. 300 dutch catsailors who want to sail in waves and pass the break. This is ofcourse a too small market for a profitable special catdesign.

Hence my disappointment 6 years ago when I was looking for a beachcat to buy after atleast 20 years of leaving the cat-scene.

I wonder how these figures are in the States and in what way the sea(ocean) for the the American Coast differs from the NorthSea coast.

My luck is that I am one of the exceptions with personal admittance to the beach. So I drive my tractor from home with cat to and from the beach. But the downside is that my sailing spot is exceptional for the dutch coast. It is near the (only) 5 km dike which interrups the dunes. The seastate can be very mean here. On top of that there are these awkward little cross-piers on the beach, which make the launching very difficult.

Catamaran paradise doesn't exist, but my love and drive for the sea concurs.

ronald reeder