GL: Single-Handed Boat for Great Loop

[Thomas L Rogers]

Ahoy you Loopers, trailerable boaters and anyone cruising the list,

My wife, Connie and I have been members of ALGCA and attended rendezvous as
well as several Trawler Fests in past years looking for the "right boat"...
if there is one? I am sure that we all know the drill, have prejudices and
the Admiral's opinions to acknowledge. After years of planning the fuel
prices have given us reason to reconsider the larger and more comfortable
mono trawler for a smaller and more efficient trailerable catamaran.  Well
we finally purchased a Polak boat!  Yes it was made in Poland and there are
about 55 of these between Europe and the small fleet in the US.

Cats Away is a 30', twin outboard with a 9'5" beam with a dry wt of about
6,000 lbs.  It can easily be trailered although the beam exceeds state
regs.  The owners I have contacted have never been stopped by the DOT or PD
during transits.  One of the dealers has told me that he has towed these
boats all over the country without a problem.

Cruising... well we just purchased it in late fall and have only had 1 week
aboard.  It is currently in our heated shop in Michigan where the water gets
harder everyday! She is currently undergoing a look-see to familiarize
myself with all systems and even some  projects, I am one of those guys that
loves to reinvent something for better or worse.  It had been a live aboard
in the Bahamas for the past year...http://www.motorcat.com/cats/index.htm

I can not put a value on the information that is available here in the lists
to include Great Loop, T&T as well as the Power-Catamaran list...
thank you all and thank YOU Georgs and others that manage these lists!
There is no perfect boat for all and as I have seen many have changed their
opinions based on their needs and wants over the years.

Our ambition is to meet some of you folks on the waterways in the coming
years.  We would specially like to see Ron and Eva on the water just to show
them that we really did it as well as El and Bill as they have unknowingly
contributed so much to our trailerable boat decision.

There aren't many of them around however worth looking at if you don't mind
a Polish boat. It may not be the best single-handed boat but it is
another trailerable option out there.   The current exchange rate is  not
attractive, what is happening with this country?
http://www.motorcat.com/index_mc30.htm


Tom & Connie Rogers

Cat's Away  (we kept the name because Connie liked it so much)

tomlrogers at gmail.com