Melrose Marine Crowther

Melrose Marine Crowther

This beautiful catamaran for sale is a GREAT liveaboard with plenty of head room( 6\'5\"). Sails flat even in 8\' seas! Draws less than 3\'. This boat has a mast height which is low enough to travel down the ICW (under the 65\' bridges). Stainless custom boarding ladder for ease of water access.
Lock Crowther - Famed multi-hull designer of Australia. Among his most notable designs were the Buccaneer & Kraken series trimarans, Spindrift 45 & Catana 40 cats, as well as a great number of other cruising, racing, charter/commercial and power cats and tris. In the early 1960s, when there were only a handful of people designing multihulls, Lock Crowther was involved in this international scene and also a member of the Amateur Yacht Research Society.
During Lock Crowther’s career, more than 2500 of his designs were built. He started out with racing boats, where most of his new ideas were developed, though he was successful drawing cruising and commercial craft as well. Lock Crowther also developed the use of ‘bulbous bows’ as a measure to reduce pitching, and hence increase speed when sailing upwind in a swell.
Crowther catamarans have a strong focus on seaworthy and seakindly hull shapes and good bridgedeck clearance which produces a much more comfortable motion to windward with much less slamming than most more modern catamarans

This boat has a decent saloon on the bridgedeck as you walk in, with the owners cabin on the port side and the quest cabin on the starboard side, forward of the galley

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