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2004 Charter Cats SA Wildcat MkIII
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Description Year: 2004 Fuel Capacity: 51 - 75 Gallons Make: Charter Cats SA For Sale By: Private Seller Model: Wildcat MkIII Solar Power: 1300 Watts Type: Catamaran Cabins: 4 Queen Length (feet): 38 Sleeps: 10 Beam (feet): 21 Watermaker: 37 Gallons per hour Hull Material: Fiberglass Heads (w/showers): 2 Rigging: Sloop, Cutter Galley Location: Up (in salon) Keel: Shoal Draft House Batteries: 3 x 8D 206 Amp/Hour Use: Fresh Water, Salt Water Engine Start Batteries: 2 x Group 31 HD Marine Engine Type: Twin 30hp Diesels Inverter: 2 Kw Pure-Sine Wave Engine Make: Volvo Penta Generator: Honda eu2000i portable gas generator/inverter Primary Fuel Type: Diesel
LOCATIONIt's current location is Grand Bahama Yacht Club, Freeport, Grand Bahama Island. We should be here until May 22. After that, time and tide will tell.The current location makes it really easy to get to. From Fort Lauderdale Florida take the ferry to Freeport. I think it's $80 each way.From Toronto, Sunwing flies direct to Freeport. Stay at the Pelican Bay Resort and you have a 4 minute ferry ride to the yacht club. On March 25th those flights (all taxes and fees in) was $1075 per person for the week.WHY ARE WE SELLINGWhile we love traveling and sailing, my wife's health requires us to have a single doctor that can follow her condition. There are plenty of available doctors out here, but she needs continuing care that a new doctor each week just can't provide.So we will be moving back to shore. No, probably not back to Canada. While our kids are there, I'm done with the winters. We will pick a spot in the Caribbean or Central America and buy a house (yuck).REGISTRATIONSail Quest is Canadian federally registered.YOU ARE CANADIAN: If you keep it out of Canada there are no taxes on the sale. This is perfectly legal. (there's a $250 registration transfer fee)YOU ARE AMERICAN: If you keep the it out of US there should not be any taxes, just your Coast Guard registration. But you have to verify this with your local state/federal agencies. I HAVE KIDSGood!This was my dream for a long time, but I waited until my kids were older and left home. That was a mistake. I think my kids missed out on an amazing adventure. They would have had such an experience if they had traveled around seeing the world. And home-schooling kids is a lot easier than most people think.I never though about home-schooling until we moved out of Toronto. We moved to a small rural area where the local school had promised full care for my 4 kids, but then couldn't deliver. After fighting with them for 2 months we decided to invest our energies into our kids instead of fighting the school. We pulled them and home schooled. They were in grades 8, 6, 5, and 2. School work took only an hour or two each day, and at the age of 16 they had finished their high school (with over 80% in EVERY class), and all enrolled at University. To be precise, Becky, our youngest, finished her high school at the age of 14, when her peers would be STARTING high school. They were, in fact, the youngest students to ever enroll at Laurentian University (Sudbury, Ontario). And they all did great, better than those who had gone through the public schools.You will find many other families with kids aboard. Smart, well-behaved kids. Kids who have seen real poverty on some islands. Kids who are grateful for what they have, and know they need to EARN a living, not have it spoon-fed to them. Kids who are active, outgoing, and fit. Kids who would rather go swimming than play a video game about swimming.EXPERIENCEWe've had power boats (14' to 24') for years but never sail boats. In fact when I bought this boat my TOTAL sailing experience was a few hours in a 10' skiff one afternoon at Scout Camp with my kids 15 years earlier. (and that led to a bleeding head wound for which I still have a scar)I did a lot of reading (Sailing for Dummies, etc.), and when we bought this we started by motoring. Then we put out the Genoa (the sail on the front) because it's an easy sail to put in and out and an easy one to learn. Then we started using the main as well. Finally after we got to the Bahamas we started using the spinnaker (the big colourful light wind sail).The boat is easy to learn on and very forgiving.TRAININGWe could give you a week of training for no cost (no guarantee how often we will get out, that is weather dependent, but we will get out a few times).My 24 year old son, is available for more after that.
WHAT SKILLS ARE NEEDEDJack of all trades is perfect.Basic mechanical skills, plumbing, wiring and electrical knowledge, these things will take you anywhere. If you are good with your hands it will help a lot. And even if you don't know it now, you soon will. :)The more you can do on your own, the better you will be.What if you are all thumbs? Then when things go wrong, you will have to hire someone to fix it. Things will go wrong. You have a very complicated piece of machinery, made as light as possible. But proper maintenance and replacing worn parts before they break will make things easy (and a lot cheaper).CAN IT BE SAILED SINGLE-HANDEDIt can be easily sailed single-handed. All lines are led to the (sheltered) cockpit, where there are two large winches. You should not have to go out on deck to do pretty much anything except drop the anchor (and you can upgrade by putting an anchor control in the cockpit if you wanted too).IS IT GOOD FOR ISLAND HOPPING?It's a perfect boat for Caribbean island hoping. And if you ever decide to venture further, the Wildcat is a real offshore boat. We have her fully set up for live-aboard cruising. While most "cruise ready" boats are good for a few days or a week out, this boat can sustain herself endlessly (well, you will need food and fuel).WHY A CATAMARANComfort, safety, convenience, comfort, oh and safety.If you haven't yet decide on getting a monohull or a cat, write back and ask "Why a catamaran?". I will send you my reasoning, but it's too long to include here.CAN YOU BEACH THIS BOAT?Click this link to view on Google Maps.
DOES IT HAVE AC
Description
| Year: | 2004 | Fuel Capacity: | 51 - 75 Gallons |
| Make: | Charter Cats SA | For Sale By: | Private Seller |
| Model: | Wildcat MkIII | Solar Power: | 1300 Watts |
| Type: | Catamaran | Cabins: | 4 Queen |
| Length (feet): | 38 | Sleeps: | 10 |
| Beam (feet): | 21 | Watermaker: | 37 Gallons per hour |
| Hull Material: | Fiberglass | Heads (w/showers): | 2 |
| Rigging: | Sloop, Cutter | Galley Location: | Up (in salon) |
| Keel: | Shoal Draft | House Batteries: | 3 x 8D 206 Amp/Hour |
| Use: | Fresh Water, Salt Water | Engine Start Batteries: | 2 x Group 31 HD Marine |
| Engine Type: | Twin 30hp Diesels | Inverter: | 2 Kw Pure-Sine Wave |
| Engine Make: | Volvo Penta | Generator: | Honda eu2000i portable gas generator/inverter |
| Primary Fuel Type: | Diesel |
LOCATIONIt's current location is Grand Bahama Yacht Club, Freeport, Grand Bahama Island. We should be here until May 22. After that, time and tide will tell.The current location makes it really easy to get to. From Fort Lauderdale Florida take the ferry to Freeport. I think it's $80 each way.From Toronto, Sunwing flies direct to Freeport. Stay at the Pelican Bay Resort and you have a 4 minute ferry ride to the yacht club. On March 25th those flights (all taxes and fees in) was $1075 per person for the week.WHY ARE WE SELLINGWhile we love traveling and sailing, my wife's health requires us to have a single doctor that can follow her condition. There are plenty of available doctors out here, but she needs continuing care that a new doctor each week just can't provide.So we will be moving back to shore. No, probably not back to Canada. While our kids are there, I'm done with the winters. We will pick a spot in the Caribbean or Central America and buy a house (yuck).REGISTRATIONSail Quest is Canadian federally registered.YOU ARE CANADIAN: If you keep it out of Canada there are no taxes on the sale. This is perfectly legal. (there's a $250 registration transfer fee)YOU ARE AMERICAN: If you keep the it out of US there should not be any taxes, just your Coast Guard registration. But you have to verify this with your local state/federal agencies. I HAVE KIDSGood!This was my dream for a long time, but I waited until my kids were older and left home. That was a mistake. I think my kids missed out on an amazing adventure. They would have had such an experience if they had traveled around seeing the world. And home-schooling kids is a lot easier than most people think.I never though about home-schooling until we moved out of Toronto. We moved to a small rural area where the local school had promised full care for my 4 kids, but then couldn't deliver. After fighting with them for 2 months we decided to invest our energies into our kids instead of fighting the school. We pulled them and home schooled. They were in grades 8, 6, 5, and 2. School work took only an hour or two each day, and at the age of 16 they had finished their high school (with over 80% in EVERY class), and all enrolled at University. To be precise, Becky, our youngest, finished her high school at the age of 14, when her peers would be STARTING high school. They were, in fact, the youngest students to ever enroll at Laurentian University (Sudbury, Ontario). And they all did great, better than those who had gone through the public schools.You will find many other families with kids aboard. Smart, well-behaved kids. Kids who have seen real poverty on some islands. Kids who are grateful for what they have, and know they need to EARN a living, not have it spoon-fed to them. Kids who are active, outgoing, and fit. Kids who would rather go swimming than play a video game about swimming.EXPERIENCEWe've had power boats (14' to 24') for years but never sail boats. In fact when I bought this boat my TOTAL sailing experience was a few hours in a 10' skiff one afternoon at Scout Camp with my kids 15 years earlier. (and that led to a bleeding head wound for which I still have a scar)I did a lot of reading (Sailing for Dummies, etc.), and when we bought this we started by motoring. Then we put out the Genoa (the sail on the front) because it's an easy sail to put in and out and an easy one to learn. Then we started using the main as well. Finally after we got to the Bahamas we started using the spinnaker (the big colourful light wind sail).The boat is easy to learn on and very forgiving.TRAININGWe could give you a week of training for no cost (no guarantee how often we will get out, that is weather dependent, but we will get out a few times).My 24 year old son, is available for more after that.
WHAT SKILLS ARE NEEDEDJack of all trades is perfect.Basic mechanical skills, plumbing, wiring and electrical knowledge, these things will take you anywhere. If you are good with your hands it will help a lot. And even if you don't know it now, you soon will. :)The more you can do on your own, the better you will be.What if you are all thumbs? Then when things go wrong, you will have to hire someone to fix it. Things will go wrong. You have a very complicated piece of machinery, made as light as possible. But proper maintenance and replacing worn parts before they break will make things easy (and a lot cheaper).CAN IT BE SAILED SINGLE-HANDEDIt can be easily sailed single-handed. All lines are led to the (sheltered) cockpit, where there are two large winches. You should not have to go out on deck to do pretty much anything except drop the anchor (and you can upgrade by putting an anchor control in the cockpit if you wanted too).IS IT GOOD FOR ISLAND HOPPING?It's a perfect boat for Caribbean island hoping. And if you ever decide to venture further, the Wildcat is a real offshore boat. We have her fully set up for live-aboard cruising. While most "cruise ready" boats are good for a few days or a week out, this boat can sustain herself endlessly (well, you will need food and fuel).WHY A CATAMARANComfort, safety, convenience, comfort, oh and safety.If you haven't yet decide on getting a monohull or a cat, write back and ask "Why a catamaran?". I will send you my reasoning, but it's too long to include here.CAN YOU BEACH THIS BOAT?Click this link to view on Google Maps.
DOES IT HAVE AC
WHAT SKILLS ARE NEEDEDJack of all trades is perfect.Basic mechanical skills, plumbing, wiring and electrical knowledge, these things will take you anywhere. If you are good with your hands it will help a lot. And even if you don't know it now, you soon will. :)The more you can do on your own, the better you will be.What if you are all thumbs? Then when things go wrong, you will have to hire someone to fix it. Things will go wrong. You have a very complicated piece of machinery, made as light as possible. But proper maintenance and replacing worn parts before they break will make things easy (and a lot cheaper).CAN IT BE SAILED SINGLE-HANDEDIt can be easily sailed single-handed. All lines are led to the (sheltered) cockpit, where there are two large winches. You should not have to go out on deck to do pretty much anything except drop the anchor (and you can upgrade by putting an anchor control in the cockpit if you wanted too).IS IT GOOD FOR ISLAND HOPPING?It's a perfect boat for Caribbean island hoping. And if you ever decide to venture further, the Wildcat is a real offshore boat. We have her fully set up for live-aboard cruising. While most "cruise ready" boats are good for a few days or a week out, this boat can sustain herself endlessly (well, you will need food and fuel).WHY A CATAMARANComfort, safety, convenience, comfort, oh and safety.If you haven't yet decide on getting a monohull or a cat, write back and ask "Why a catamaran?". I will send you my reasoning, but it's too long to include here.CAN YOU BEACH THIS BOAT?Click this link to view on Google Maps.
DOES IT HAVE AC