Description
| Year: | 1995 | Type: | Beach Catamaran |
| Make: | Topper | Length (feet): | 16 |
| Model: | Catapult | Hull Material: | Aluminium / Inflatable |
The Catapult is an ideal boat for easy fun on the summer beach, or cruising and racing. The design is unique:- a strong, stiff aluminium frame supports slender inflatable hulls. The resulting light weight, only 95 kgs (210 lbs) total, makes Catapult sensationally fast for a 5m (16ft 4in) boat. The frame and inflated hulls are light enough to be carried on a roof rack, with the smaller bits in the boot. (Catapult's development was shaped at Weymouth Speed week where it hit 17.9 knots, with peaks of over 20 knots.) The light weight allows this performance with only a 10 sqm. sail area, so that it remains forgiving and well behaved. It has all three essentials for good learning and cruising: ease of handling (to build expertise and confidence) safety, and high speed (for excitement, and getting home on time. The light weight allows easy sailing from the beach A new owner can get into racing with the active owners association. The boat can be sailed with crew or family on holiday for fun and learning, but remains a true single-hander (not needing a crew to assemble it or manage it on land or water) It is the perfect fun boat still with full racing potential. This is a TI rig model with a part mylar sail. It has had little use for it's age, not used since 1999. There is no wear to the sail and no deterioration of the frame . It is in good condition, Admitting all now I recently bought this expecting the 'roof rack parts' to fit inside my van - needless to say I was wrong - its a high top van so this makes it almost impossible to put on the roof and kinda takes away the whole point of buying it in the first place - so up for sale again - this is as the original description above with the addition that one jammer for the rig has lost its springiness a bit so has to be manually jammed when the mast is locked in, normal sailing this will only need to be done once per outing!! - needless to say you will need a roof rack! |
