Review of Catalac 10M

Basic specs.

The Catalac 10M also known as Catalac 34 is a catamaran designed by the maritime architect Tom M. Lack together with J. Winterbotom in the mid eighties. Less than 100 boats have been built. The Catalac 10M is built by the British yard Catalac Cruising Catamarans Ltd..

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Hull

Both the hull and the deck is made of fibreglass. A hull made of fibreglass requires only a minimum of maintenance during the sailing season.

Interior

The boat is equipped with 5-7 berths and 530 liters (140 US gallons, 116 imperial gallons) fresh water capacity.

Rig

The Catalac 10M is built with a masthead rig. The advantage of a masthead rig is its simplicity and the fact that a given sail area - compared with a fractional rig - can be carried lower and thus with less heeling moment.

Keel

Unknown keel type

The boat can enter even shallow marinas as the draft is just about 0.84 - 0.94 meter (2.76 - 3.06 ft) dependent on the load.

Engine

The fuel tank has a capacity of 113 liters (29 US gallons, 24 imperial gallons).

Catalac 10M may be equipped with an inboard Yanmar diesel engine

Sailing characteristics

This section covers widely used rules of thumb to describe the sailing characteristics. Please note that even though the calculations are correct, the interpretation of the results might not be valid for extreme boats.

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Sailing statistics

This section is statistical comparison with similar boats of the same category. The basis of the following statistical computations is our unique database with more than 26,000 different boat types and 350,000 data points.

L/B (Length Beam Ratio)

What is L/B (Length Beam Ratio)?

The l/b ratio for Catalac 10M is 2.21.

Compared with other similar sail catamarans it is slimmer than 76% of all other designs.

D/L (Displacement Length Ratio)

What is Displacement Length Ratio?

The DL-ratio for Catalac 10M is 264 which categorizes this boat among 'moderate racers'.

0% of all similar sailboat designs are categorized as heavier. A heavy displacement combined with smaller water plane area has lower acceleration and is more comfortable.

Maintenance

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References

[Ref 1]: ISO 8666 Small craft — Principal data.
[Ref 3]: ISO 12215-5 Small craft — Hull construction and scantlings.