We make a 500 km detour back home to visit Incidence Sails in La Grande Motte. Incidence is the main sailmaker for Outremer (and for a.o. Lagoon and FP btw) and we'll probably choose Incidence for all of our sails.
I know it doesn't have sails ...
But if we have to be on a motor ship it might as well be this one!
The interior is a bit, how to say this politely, calvinistic and pre-modern-minimalistic but if our friends will go through with this that will be dealt wit...
We return to La Grande Motte in the last week of October to see the progress on hulls nr. 1 to 5. Number 1 is planned to go in the water on November 10th. A couple of days later our #4 will take its place in the assembly hall.
Being locked down again we watch the launch of Nr.1 live online from our yearly Ameland retreat and see how they move our Nr.4 to the assembly hall.
This version of this episode includes world premiere footage I just received of the AST COAST 340 full car...
There's some time left before we have to make a final choice and in the meantime we feel comfortable that we will find a matching dinghy. One of the candidates is the brand new ASTender COAST 340 and we received footage of the very first trials on a lake c...
We take a peek behind the scenes of the trial for the Ladies Only sailing course by professional sailor Nikki Henderson. Marijke is invited to come along.
It involved begging and trying to behave a bit but it worked : we were invited to sail along on the NEW Outremer 55 #1 on a beautiful Sunday. Always a bit scary when you buy a boat from paper only but very satisfying if the actual result meets your hopes a...
The new 51 of another Dutch couple, Marc and Mirella, is launched during our stay in La Grande Motte and of course we're there to watch. I'll leave it to them to explain why they call their boat the FAT DUCK, as it looks pretty lean and mean to me .....
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Updated summary of our sailing history while waiting on the delivery of our new Outremer 55 in June 2021. The formal start of the World Odyssey will be on October 12th in Sevilla.
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We drive to LGM again for another sea trial on Outremer 55 #1 and to see the first meeting of our deck with the hulls. While we're there hull number 2 (Akaroa III) is launched as well and in part 2 we'll even see another Gunboat 68 splashing.
On the second day of the sea trials we had quite a bit of wind so we had the chance to test some of the other sails. Nice bonus : another hull number 4 was launched when we were there.
We are invited in Goes for a test run on the ASTender Coast 340 to find out whether it's stable, fast and spacy enough to make a final decision on the tender for our Outremer 55.
As we are making a next step by stepping up to an Outremer 55 performance catamaran we discuss the differences to our previous cat, a Lagoon 52S.
Do we have to make a lot of sacrifices or are we just able to have it all?
Contains specific layout comparis...
Back in La Grande Motte we monitor the progress of our (and other) Outremer(s) and we get a chance to sail along on recently delivered 51 Spekeend. And we do get an opportunity to test the lighter AST Beach tender in a bit of chop.
Just enjoying the sun and a bit of wind getting familiair with the Outremers. O51 Spekeend has just been handed over and Marc & Mirella have finished their instruction and training. Both times we get out together with O55 #1, the second time we're even...
In preparation of our new Outremer 55, planned to splash at the end of April 21, we analyze our interesting trip in a Force 10 storm 4 years ago. What choices would we make with the current level of experience and which lessons did we learn?
Our Outremer 55 will be launched in 2 weeks (April 2021) and we discuss the planning towards delivery and the start of the GLYWO500 around the world sailing regatta.
In parallel we test the new Wireless Go II microphone set which seems to work pretty well...
After the launch of our boat last episode now it's time to step the Lorima carbon mast and install the base sails. First we witness the launch of another Outremer 51 (Engage) and the re-launch of Gunboat #1.
We join the first Outremer Week in 2021 in La Grande Motte. Several interesting trainings and workshops; launching O51 Red Pepper; and sail along on a training on Outremer 55 number 1 Saga.
We finally have the chance to have a good look at the new Lagoon 55 during its stopover in La Grande Motte
This video contains the Lagoon related part of the last episode of our sailing channel Cat Greatcircle.
So we head to LGM again this time for the final delivery and handover of our new Greatcircle. We arrive a couple of day before so we have time to join Ben & Angels on their test sail on Akaroa III and sail to Marseille and back together with Peter &...
Immediately afte the delivery the training week / handover starts with instructions from the after sales department and from Pochon for the electronics.
And then, after the Tramontana settles, it's time for our first sail on our own boat.....
After the delivery and the handover week we're ready to test the boat for a couple of weeks. On the first trip O51 Spekeend joins us towards Rosas in Spain, we continue the next morning to Mallorca.
While preparing the boat back in La Grande Motte in the South of France for our tour around the world we show you around the whole cat and list the options we've chosen in addition to the standard Outremer 55.
Back in La Grande Motte the preparation for the around the world rally continues as Outremers' After Sales Service team solves the issue list after the shake down cruise and we have a special sailing day where the experts Loïc and Matthoeu show me how it'...
This time we're sailing in just a tiny bit of wind and the boat still wants to move. Still working on after sales support items and preparing the boat for our sailing around the world departure at the end of this month.
But first we'll pay a visit to the ...
We're still preparing for the around the world rally, finishing the after sales list and doing the safety check.
But we do find the time to travel by train to the Cannes Boat Show to (again) have a look at all the (for us) relevant catamarans on display.
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Bonus :
As we were too busy preparing for the GLYWO I haven’t been able to finish the nee episode. To make up for it, I’ll publish a private video of our visit to Privilège a couple of months ago.
On our way back to Holland we took a closer look at ...
Final preparations for the world rally, it looks like we will finish all action points before the departure on September 27. Tina arrives and joins us during the Outremer Week trainings.
And then it's time to sail. Instead of the normal Outremer Cup we wi...
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