How to Tame a Cat
ACCORDING TO YACHT BROKERS, few skippers—even experienced ones—purchase powercats without first dipping their toes in the water. Most often, they book a weeklong bareboat charter to try ’er out.
And so they find themselves one bright morning looking at what seems to be a very bulky yacht. Now what? Well, there’s good news and there’s bad news.
What attracts most boaters to a powercat is the immense amount of space in the salon, staterooms, cockpit, flybridge and foredeck. That’s part of the good news. The bad news is the sheer size of these vessels. A 44-foot catamaran such as the Aquila 44 pictured here is nearly 22 feet wide, which means skippers
