Comparing Catamarans. Bali 40' and 43' vs Maverick 44'. Annapolis Sailboat Show 2017
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Welcome to Cruising Off Duty. We are Craig and Janice. We love travelling and we love sailing, so we figure the best way to see the world is by sailboat. We presently have a 35' Beneteau Oceanis sloop that we sail out of Kingston, Ontario Canada, which is on Lake Ontario. We have a longer term plan, when we retire in a few years, to sell everything and buy a 40-50' Catamaran and circumnavigate the globe. Craig loves photography along with land based and drone videography and plans to document everything along our travels to share with the world through Youtube and other social media. For now, follow our channel as we show you the beauty of the Great Lakes and the 1000 Islands area of the St Lawrence River. You will also see the steps we take as start narrowing down the Catamaran we think will suit us best as we move closer to our goal of living full time on a sailboat and exploring the world. It should be a journey worth watching.
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Ep93. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we continue comparing Sailing Catamarans from the Annapolis Sailboat Show in terms of how we feel they would suit our needs as a full time Liveaboard future home.
In this episode we compare a Bali 40′ and a Bali 43′ to a Maverick 44′. We are judging them based on 1) Interior and Exterior Comfort, 2) Protection from the Sun, Wind and Rain when sailing the boat and 3) Our impression of the build quality. One boat clearly comes out the winner in this competition. Watch to see which one. Bali is more of a mass production boat and the Maverick seems more of a custom built boat. Probably none of these 3 make it into our favorite boats of the show but one had possibilities if we could find one for a good price on the used market down the road, when we are ready to buy.
If money was no option, we would assuredly buy one of the Custom Catamarans that is built to suit the owners requested needs and come completely kitted out from the manufacturer with everything you would need for living aboard such as Solar Power, Water Maker, Radar, AIS, Generators, Spinnakers etc, etc but the problem with boats like that, is they are very expensive when new and very few of them are built every year, so there are not that many on the used market. As such, the prices of these boats do not fall as far on the used market as the mass production boats such as the ones built by the 3 largest builders, Fountaine Pajot, Lagoon and Leopard.
So we have to seriously look at the production boats as the most likely option for us down the road when we sell everything we own to live full time on a Catamaran.
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