[quote=shortyfox][quote]Modern catamarans are mostly built for racing (a few exceptions but the recreational market is dead in the USA, replaced with rotomolded boats)[/quote]
Too bad. Except for rotomolded I don't believe there's been much development in "recreational boats" in the last few decades. I've been sailing beach cats for 40 years but have no experience with the latest designs. There's a small group of Nacra sailors from a local club with modern boats that I sometimes get the opportunity to sail alongside. This is like an informal race and they don't exactly walk away from my old, tired G-Cat. The difference in speed is less than a knot on reaches. If I were in the market for new, and money was no object, I'd give a Nacra 570 a good look. Certainly more recreational than high performance but plenty user friendly with boomless, boardless and jib blocks on the cross tube. I know because I sailed a Nacra 500 for 10 years and I believe the 570 is a bigger version of the same.[/quote]
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