Thank you for your interest in my Skoota powercats So far I have designed a Skoota 20, 24, 28 and 36. Several 20's and 24's have been launched. Two 36's are building. A 32 is on the "drawing board", actually "screen" of course. I don't have any plans to draw any larger powercats The 20 and 24 are true trailable boats. The 28 is "transportable", so is something you might do once a year, maybe when taking it to another cruising ground, as we plan to do, as I mentioned in my last post. So you can take it apart for transporting by road but sensibly it will require boatyard help to assemble. Each hull is under 4ft wide, so the two go together and are under 8ft total. The cuddy is 12ft by 9ft10in x 6ft2in. So, if you can transport it at under 10ft width, it all easily goes on one flat bed trailer, 28ft + 12ft = 40ft. If you want to keep it under 8ft wide then the cuddy can travel on its aft bulkhead, so it is 6ft 2in wide but 10ft high. On a flat bed trailer you'll still be low enough to get under bridges etc. The cockpit panels, anchor lockers bolt in place and sit on the hull tops for transport. If you look at the build photos you can see that the hulls were built in the builders basement, (check the videos of moving them and turning them over). However it was completed in a small shed in Sequim, Wa. This shed had a 10ft wide door. So after building the boat we disassembled it and took it outside in pieces (all by man/woman power). Then the two hulls were loaded on a flat bed trailer and pulled by a friends pickup 40 miles to Port Townsend. There the hulls were again man/woman handled off the trailer and set up ready for the cuddy and cockpit. That was on a Thursday, in the snow. On the Tuesday the weather improved and we used a flatbed truck to deliver the cuddy. We could have fitted the cuddy ourselves, but when we arrived at the boatyard the crane driver said "its my lunch break, I'll drop it in place if I can do it in 10 minutes" which he did. We had left Sequim at 11.30am and by 1pm the boat was fully assembled and could have been launched (except we still had to connect up the engines). Instead it was launched on the Thursday. The empty weight of the complete boat is about 1.6T, or say 3600lbs. Floating on its WL it is 2.3T, say 5100lbs. The antifouling line (actually Coppercoat - which works very well in the PNW) you see in the pictures/videos is 40mm (11/2in) above the 2.3T mark, so even while cruising to Desolation Sound we were lighter than 2.3T The engines are actually twin 20hp, which gives 16 knots WOT. The max I recommend is twin 60hp to give speeds in the mid 20's. We cruise at 10-12 knots and do 5-7mpg. The engines are too small to use fuel flow meters. But the consumption figures are accurate. That's because last summer we were using the 3gal fuel tanks that came with the engines. So I had to refill them every couple of hours. A trip from Vancouver to Saturna was typical. We motored 38 miles in 3 hrs 20 minutes, so averaged over 11 knots, and used just 5gal of fuel (over 7mpg). When I got back to Saturna I refilled those tanks with a 5gal can and still had a bit left over. We now have our "big" 17 gal tanks installed which should give us a range of about 200 miles. The 20, 24 and 28 Skootas all use asymmetric hulls. The 32 and 36 use symmetric hulls for better load carrying and because they will be more offshore rather than inshore boats. The narrow, asymmetric hulls are wetter in bigger waves - but work well in the Georgia Strait, Inside Passage or ICW of course. We motored about 1000 miles last year with no problems. Our boat was built by Josh Turner of Wheelhouse Woodworks. He did a great job, very fast, very careful, very accurate. Highly recommended. We paid him for 2300 hours, but we painted the boat, which is why it doesn't look that good close up. I don't (want to) know what the materials cost was. Guessing about USD30,000 as you see it. Josh says he can build another one for about USD120,000 for labor and materials, ex engines I hope that answers your questions. If you have more maybe you should email me direct rather than have me answer on the mailing list. Your choice -- Best wishes Richard Woods of Woods Designs sailing and power catamaran designers www.sailingcatamarans.com

Thanks, Richard, for the detailed response on Skoota. I hope you will continue to answer such questions on the List rather than by private email. We only learn when we share. --Listmaster Georgs On 2014-01-26, at 2:45 PM, Richard Woods wrote: > Thank you for your interest in my Skoota powercats > > So far I have designed a Skoota 20, 24, 28 and 36. Several 20's and 24's have been launched. Two 36's are building. A 32 is on the "drawing board", actually "screen" of course. I don't have any plans to draw any larger powercats > > The 20 and 24 are true trailable boats. The 28 is "transportable", so is something you might do once a year, maybe when taking it to another cruising ground, as we plan to do, as I mentioned in my last post. > > So you can take it apart for transporting by road but sensibly it will require boatyard help to assemble. Each hull is under 4ft wide, so the two go together and are under 8ft total. The cuddy is 12ft by 9ft10in x 6ft2in. So, if you can transport it at under 10ft width, it all easily goes on one flat bed trailer, 28ft + 12ft = 40ft. If you want to keep it under 8ft wide then the cuddy can travel on its aft bulkhead, so it is 6ft 2in wide but 10ft high. On a flat bed trailer you'll still be low enough to get under bridges etc. The cockpit panels, anchor lockers bolt in place and sit on the hull tops for transport. > > If you look at the build photos you can see that the hulls were built in the builders basement, (check the videos of moving them and turning them over). However it was completed in a small shed in Sequim, Wa. This shed had a 10ft wide door. So after building the boat we disassembled it and took it outside in pieces (all by man/woman power). Then the two hulls were loaded on a flat bed trailer and pulled by a friends pickup 40 miles to Port Townsend. > > There the hulls were again man/woman handled off the trailer and set up ready for the cuddy and cockpit. That was on a Thursday, in the snow. On the Tuesday the weather improved and we used a flatbed truck to deliver the cuddy. We could have fitted the cuddy ourselves, but when we arrived at the boatyard the crane driver said "its my lunch break, I'll drop it in place if I can do it in 10 minutes" which he did. We had left Sequim at 11.30am and by 1pm the boat was fully assembled and could have been launched (except we still had to connect up the engines). Instead it was launched on the Thursday. > > The empty weight of the complete boat is about 1.6T, or say 3600lbs. Floating on its WL it is 2.3T, say 5100lbs. The antifouling line (actually Coppercoat - which works very well in the PNW) you see in the pictures/videos is 40mm (11/2in) above the 2.3T mark, so even while cruising to Desolation Sound we were lighter than 2.3T > > The engines are actually twin 20hp, which gives 16 knots WOT. The max I recommend is twin 60hp to give speeds in the mid 20's. We cruise at 10-12 knots and do 5-7mpg. The engines are too small to use fuel flow meters. But the consumption figures are accurate. That's because last summer we were using the 3gal fuel tanks that came with the engines. So I had to refill them every couple of hours. > > A trip from Vancouver to Saturna was typical. We motored 38 miles in 3 hrs 20 minutes, so averaged over 11 knots, and used just 5gal of fuel (over 7mpg). When I got back to Saturna I refilled those tanks with a 5gal can and still had a bit left over. We now have our "big" 17 gal tanks installed which should give us a range of about 200 miles. > > The 20, 24 and 28 Skootas all use asymmetric hulls. The 32 and 36 use symmetric hulls for better load carrying and because they will be more offshore rather than inshore boats. The narrow, asymmetric hulls are wetter in bigger waves - but work well in the Georgia Strait, Inside Passage or ICW of course. We motored about 1000 miles last year with no problems. > > Our boat was built by Josh Turner of Wheelhouse Woodworks. He did a great job, very fast, very careful, very accurate. Highly recommended. We paid him for 2300 hours, but we painted the boat, which is why it doesn't look that good close up. I don't (want to) know what the materials cost was. Guessing about USD30,000 as you see it. Josh says he can build another one for about USD120,000 for labor and materials, ex engines > > I hope that answers your questions. If you have more maybe you should email me direct rather than have me answer on the mailing list. Your choice > > -- > Best wishes > > Richard Woods of Woods Designs > sailing and power catamaran designers > > www.sailingcatamarans.com > _______________________________________________ > Power-Catamaran Mailing List