Doing this again ?

A little over a year after launching Joan Bell I had a good idea of what I really wanted in a Cruising Catamaran.

Its stange that one needs to own a boat and for that matter sail one for a decent period time before you figure out what you really want, or at least your desires are. I am going to try and make the site entertaining as well as informative. I have been told the previous site was full of good information but presented in a pretty matter of fact fashion - a bit too dry and too serious. So will try, I am afterall a none serious sort of Person - well if you are building a second boat in a lifetime, well there has to be something sort of screwy with you - well actually this is the third boat - built a ferro sloop in the UK - but that was another life.
Like I have said we are doing all this again - but bigger and better - Remember bigger is always, always better, no matter what anyone tells you.

So well what did I want out of my new boat - now I had a blank sheet of paper, so what's the plan - something like this developed.

• Speed

I wanted a boat that had the cabability to do over 250 miles a day.
• Cockpit Layout

Visibility - See where one is going just has to be a good thing - yes ?
• Powering

Sometimes the wind does not blow or blows dead against you - engines work in this senario.
• Safety

Sirocco is going to be used for world cruising - so has to be safe.

Many other ideas went through my mind during the initial planning stage - Some were followed up and others dismissed as costly and a waste of time - Hope you enjoy the site and any future boating or boatbuilding activities. Cheers John.