For Sale: Catana 44 cruising catamaran

[Mystic Rhythms]

Mystic Rhythms is a 1993 Catana 44s blue water cruising boat located in the Philippines. We have been cruising for over 13 years and seen over 50 countries, but now feel it is time to move ashore.

The boat has recently been painted (hulls, deck, and bottom) and many upgrades have been made.

Asking 229,000 US Dollars

Mystic Rhythms is a Catana 44S (Crowther design) built in 1993. She is 44 feet long and 23 feet wide. Only 19 catana 44s were built and this is hull number 5. Each is a bit different, but I think they got it right on this boat with a light teak interior and better placement of the fuel and water tanks. The S in the 44 series means a bit fancier of an interior. She was originally 4 cabins and 4 heads, but now is 3 of each and one cabin was converted to an
office with a freezer.

Design features unique to
Catana are: - Asymmetrical hulls, which help prevent hobby horsing and aids in preventing the leeward hull from
being buried in a wave when sailing to windward at high speeds. In addition, all weight is concentrated toward the
center of the hulls making sure weight is kept to a minimum forward of the mast. - Daggerboards, which offer very
shallow sailing with boards up and closer windward sailing angles with boards down. In addition, there is an extra
margin of safety when sailing in heavy wind-sea conditions due to the ability to raise the daggerboards and "slide" off
the face of extremely high waves. Each Catana is constructed using vacuum-molded unidirectional roving
impregnated with isophthalic resin. Kevlar and carbon fiber are used in high load-stress areas. The entire structure is
cored with high-density Divinycell closed cell foam and all bulkheads are vacuum molded and cored with end-grain
balsa.


This boat is loaded and ready for cruising. The list of equipment is:

Avon 310 RIB dingy with a Yamaha 15 enduro engine. Also a suzuki 2.2 motor.
Volvo MD2040B engines (times two) with Volvo 3 blade folding props (about 3000 hours each). Repowered in 1998.
two dual voltage/cycle 50 amp chargers
Wired for dual 110/220 shore power and outlets (various cords and adaptors)
6 Trojan 145 house batteries (2012)
Upper standing rigging (2012)
7 solar panels (650 watts total)
Kiss wind generator
Pure (Kataydyn) 40 watermaker
Plastimo 4 man liferaft
Para anchor
65 lb Manson supreme main anchor on 265 feet of chain (2012) using a Tigress windlass
60lb Brittany spare with 50 feet of chain and 150 feet of rhode
Fortress 35 stern anchor
Icom 700 Pro SSB & Pactor IIe modem upgraded to a 3
AIS receiver (worth it's weight in gold)
Furuno 16 mile radar
Garmin gps (162 and 152)
Raymarine 60 series instruments at both helms
2 Raymarine autopilots (st6000 quadrant mounted and a wheel mount backup)
GPS integrated EPIRB (current certification)
Fridge with small freezer and separate freezer down below
2 electric heads and one manual pump, holding tank
1 Mainsail, 2 jibs (genoa 2012 and heavy air jib), and 4 spinnakers with 2 ATN socks
Solid Bimini with built in rain catcher system with canvas front to block the rain
Propane barbecue with separate propane tank
Force 10 4 burner stove, oven with broiler, two 20lb aluminum propane tanks
All ports and hatches have fly screens and the door has a sliding screen door


For more information and photos (as well as 13 years of cruising logs and photos) visit my website at:



http://mysticrhythmsadventure.com/ForSale.html
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