Power Cats

[Open-d]

Do Power Cats make suitable passage makers or are there problems with them that I don't see?

[CarlF]

It depends on the length of your "passage". Most production powercats have a range of about 1000 miles at a "slow" cruising speed. Using one engine you can double that - but you are going pretty slowly. With fuel bladders on deck you can obviously extend that. Since all cats are quite weight sensitive, carrying lots of fuel handicaps performance much more than large fuel tanks on a traditional monohull powerboat.

As far as seaworthiess, Leopard delivers many of the powercats it builds in Cape Town on their own bottoms -- even to Australia.