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For Sale: Atlantic 57 Catamaran "Nogal"

Nogal has been well maintained and upgraded for world cruising and is ready to go anywhere immediately. Here's a way to safely travel in style! Why wait years for a catamaran of substantially lesser quality at 3x the cost? There is not a better world cruising cat available anywhere at any cost than NOGAL.

Construction: Hulls, decks and pilothouse are constructed from vacuum bagged SP Systems Ampreg epoxy resin and high performance glass laminate cored with "Core-Cell" SAN foam and PVC foam. All exterior surfaces are spray painted with linear polyurethane coating. Crossbeams are built of uni-directional carbon fiber/epoxy with foam cored epoxy/glass bulkheads.

Extensive use is made of uni-directional carbon fiber reinforcement in high load areas of hulls, decks and bulkheads. Interior joinerwork and floorboards are all cored panels to provide stiffness at low weight.

Specifications:

Propulsion and Steering Starboard: Volvo D2-50 new 2018, diesel saildrive engine (April 2024 engine hours 2100) Port: D2-55, new 2016, diesel saildrive engine (April 2024 hours 2850) Recent engine service included replacement of mixing elbow and oil pans. Dual instrument panels with tachometer and engine monitoring gauges and alarms. Primary and secondary fuel filters. Dual "ZF Micro Commander" electronic single lever engine controls mounted at pilothouse inside helm. Three blade bronze folding type propellers by FlexOFold Rudder blades are fiberglass composite, high performance hydrofoil section with solid Titanium rudder stocks turning in low friction bushings.

Carbon Mast and Booms Carbon Fiber Spars (Mast, main boom, jib boom, forward crossbeam and compression beam) from King Composites. Standing rigging replaced in 2022 and 2024. Painted mast, deck stepped with two sets of rod diamonds over single spreader. Masthead light, masthead VHF, wind instruments All halyards and reefing lines are led to cockpit. Boom has internal reefing lines, topping lift Self tacking jib with harken Unit 3 MKIV reefing/furling unit (2016) Genoa Unit 4 MKIV reefing/furling unit (2016)

Sails Main, North Sails 3DI with 3 reff points, 2019 Genoa, North Sails, 3DI, 2019 Self tacking Jib, North Sails, 3DI, 2019 A3 Spinnaker, North Sails, 2019 A5 Spinnaker, Quantum Sails, 20222

Standing Rigging All type 316 1x19 SS Dyform wire rope stays and shrouds (new 2021) Navtec rod for mast diamond stays (new 2024)

Running Rigging Dyneema halyards and control lines. Low stretch sheets (2022, 2024)

Deck Hardware Winches: 4x Harken #60 Performa 3 speed electric winches (2016) 1x Andersen 46 ST 2 speed electric 2x Andersen 46 ST 2 speed manual

Harken Mini-Maxi main sheet traveler 11'6" long Harken self tacking jib traveler, 12' long Harken ball bearing blocks are standard equipment. Spinlock rope clutches

Daggerboards Two cored glass fiber asymmetric "hi lift" daggerboards in epoxy/glass laminate trunks with low friction bushings Up and down haul control lead to cockpit

Collision Bulkheads Each hull has two collision bulkheads forward.

Electrical: 2022 American Power 42i 100amp 24V alternators, 2022 2 Balmar MC-624 Balmer regulators Lithionics 630 amp hours batteries with BMS, 2022 Phillippi PSM-2 system monitor, 2022 (10) 100watt Solbian Solar Panels, 2019 Western Co WRM 15 Solar charge controllers, 2016 Victron Charge Controller(2) Air Silent X wind turbines, 2022 4x Kyocera Solar Panels, 130 watt output each 10x Solbian SP100L Solar Panels, 100 watts each Solar Regulator: WRM15 charge controller 24-volt circuit breaker panel with voltage and amp meters. 2x engine start batteries Battery monitor Frensch LED lights Resolux full spectrum fluorescent lights in galley and work areas LED red night lighting within the pilothouse Chart light

AC System Magnum 4000W Inverter/charger, 24V DC 105A charger, 120/240VAC Output 60Hz (2020) Shore Power: 120v or 220v 50 amp and 30 amp AC outlets are installed in the following places. (1) each head, (1) galley, (1) workbench, (2) nav. Station, (1) port side of pilothouse settee. Isolation Transformer (2016)

Tanks (2) 100 gallon diesel fuel tanks each with deck fill, shut off and gauge (2) 80 gallon water tanks each with deck fill, vent and gauge

Watermaker 2x 14gph Spectra 24v 340Z Catalina watermaker. This includes remote operation and monitoring in pilot house (gph production, ppm of product water, water pressure at filter and water pressure at feed pump).

Navigation & Electronics Garmin AIS - AIS650 Class B (2018) Garmin 7616xsv Chartplotter (2021) 16 inch Nav station unit Garmin 7607xsv Chartplotter (2019) 7 inch Cockpit station Depth - 2 sounding units (one on each hull) GPS - Garmin Garmin Radar VHF - 2x ICOM with Digital Selective Calling (DSC) (helm station and nav station) Wind - NKE masthead unit NKE Autopilot NKE multi-display gyropilot outside and inside NKE remote autopilot ICOM IC-M605 VHF radio with cockpit remote, 2020 ICOM IC-M802 SSB radio Backup GPS Furuno GP-32 dgps Starlink and Iridium GO Satellite Communications Stereo: Fusion 3 zone Sound System Fusion 1600 watt amplifier (2018) Pilothouse speakers, cockpit speakers and aft platform speakers WiFi Hailer PA Horn, 2020

Hull and Deck Ventilation: (16) Deck hatches, all Lewmar Ocean Series. Accommodation area hatches are equipped with Ocean Air roller shade/screens. (6) opening portlights with clear plexi windows, three in each outboard hull side An opening port is located adjacent to each double berth Cowl vents in engine rooms and in each head (15) Hella fans, two in each aft double berth, four in each forward double berth, one in the galley, one each in the pilothouse helmstation and nav area.

Air Conditioning and Heating: 1 Marine Air 1600btu Aircon for pilot house and aft cabins (2) Climma 4200 BTU reverse cycle AirCon 115v - one in each midship cabin (2) D4 Espar Diesel Heaters

Rails and Lifelines: Custom fabricated SS stanchions with dyneema lifelines. Custom fabricated polished SS pushpits Integral swim step on rudder Swim ladder on starboard step

Anchor Handling: Dual bow anchor rollers enable two anchors to be easily used at the same time. Lewmar V4 windlass with rope/chain gypsy and dual direction switch. Self-bailing lockers for self stowing chain and rode.

Anchors: Ultra Stainless anchor 100 lbs. (2017), with 140' 3/8" chain and 250' nylon rode Fortress FX-37 (2016), 150' nylon Salt water washdown

Cleats and Docklines Six 10" docking cleats, 2 bow, 2 stern, 2 springline Two 12" mooring cleats Four (4) 5/8" 3 strand nylon docking lines each 50' in length are supplied.

Navigation Lights LED masthead Tri-color and anchor light Mast mounted steaming light with deck flood light LED deck level running lights

Exterior Lighting Aft deck amber LED lights Aft deck floodlights

Interior Varnished walnut, cabinet door frames, fiddles and trim. Teak and holly laminate soles in accommodation spaces Semi-gloss polyurethane finish in accommodation areas 2020: New upholstery for pilothouse settee seats and other cushions.

Pilothouse Port and starboard settee seats both have a varnished wood table. Port side table is a movable "coffee table". Starboard side table is a dining table configured so that it can be moved on the aft deck for open air dining. Settee seats have partitioned stowage beneath via lift out covers in the seat top.

Inside Helm Station A 30" destroyer type wheel is mounted to starboard with a 4" flush mount Ritchie SS-2000 compass, engine instrument panels, electronic gear shift/throttle control and sailing instruments (depth,wind,speed) located within easy reach of the wheel.

Pilot House Nav. Station Extra large chart table measuring 55" x 34" with full size chart drawer beneath Two file drawers Extra outlets for laptop computers, printer, etc.. Tank Tender, 4 tank monitor

Bow Nets High strength, race boat style, Dyneema knotless net.

Aft Deck Aft deck Bimini in Stamoid fabric , 2020 Dinghy hoist and dinghy tie downs built into the aft deck Four large flush deck lockers along the forward side of aft deck for stowage. Outside dining table Seamac Sliding door for entrance to pilothouse Stainless steel bimini frame with 8 led lights

Galley Force 10 (2023), four burner propane stove with automatic temperature control oven and broiler. A remote solenoid propane shut-off switch is provided. Two 20lb. composite propane bottles are located in a self venting locker Panasonic microwave oven Galley sink is a deep double bowl polished stainless steel with strainers set flush into a Granicoat counter top. Hot and cold pressurized water delivered by single lever mixer. Ample drawers, lockers and shelves for storage. Built in trash container

Refrigeration A custom fabricated side by side refrigerator/ freezer (6 and 6 cu/ft capacity) is located in the galley, inboard side. Adjustable shelves included in each compartment. Each unit uses a separate highly efficient SeaFrost compressor with electronic control thermostat providing redundancy.

Aft Cabins Each hull has a separate aft cabin which contains a queen size double berth (60" wide, 80" long, matress new 2022) large hanging locker, built in dresser, two bench seats with additional stowage beneath seats and berth. A deck hatch and opening ports provide excellent cross ventilation.

Midship Cabins Each hull has a sleeping cabin amidships that contains a large king sized berth, matress new 2022. A hanging locker, built in dresser, storage cabinet and bookshelf is included. A large deck hatch and two opening ports provide ventilation.

Heads Each head is equipped with a vanity with polished stainless steel sink with hot/cold pressure water via a mixer. Granicoat laminate countertop and stowage locker beneath. Two large stowage lockers with shelves for towels, etc. are within easy reach.

Tecma silence electric toilet plumbed to holding tank with valves for overboard discharge as well as pump out.

Showers Semi-gloss polyurethane finish for easy cleanup Hot/cold pressure water with single lever mixer Waterproof light Electric sump pump

Hot Water Heater Isotemp 40 Litre

Washing Machine: LG 5kg washer dryer

Outside Shower A hot and cold water pressurized rinse station is installed on the starboard hull transom boarding platform.

Salt Water Washdown Pump for deck washdown is located in the hull forward locker

Workbench (port hull) Drawers and lockers below for tool and parts storage Lockers above for stowage

Exterior Finish The entire above water line exterior of the boat is spray painted with linear polyurethane, Awlcraft polyurethane coating, 2020. Walking areas on deck non-skid finished. In cockpit the floors are SeaDek.

Hull Rub Rail An external rub rail with solid metal cap.

Dinghy AB 11' hard bottom inflatable, 2022 Yamaha 20HP 4-stroke (2017)

Asking Price: US$ 1,375,000.

This is a preliminary specification, all particulars are believed to be correct but it is the responsibility of the buyer to verify that the items listed match what is on board.

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Nogal | 2009 Chris White Atlantic 57

San francisco, ca, us.

Nogal | Chris White Atlantic 57 57ft

Us $1,375,000.

Arguably the perfect catamaran for a family sabbatical cruise NOGAL has performed flawlessly on a family circumnavigation and again on a recent Pacific cruise. This design is fast yet easy to handle with all sailing controls lead to a practical center cockpit. Large enough to be comforatable at anchor as well as in rough going at sea, she is a short handed sailing dream.

Nogal has been well maintained and upgraded for world cruising and is ready to go anywhere immediately. Here's a way to safely travel in style! Why wait years for a catamaran of substantially lesser quality at 3x the cost? There is not a better world cruising cat available anywhere at any cost than NOGAL .

Specifications

• Length: 57ft
• Beam: 28' 3"
• Draft: 7' 9"
• Hull: Composite
• Status: Active

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• Keel: Lifting Keel

MEASUREMENTS

• Length Overall: 57.08 ft
• Max Draft: 7' 9"
• Beam Measure: 28' 3"

Accommodations

• Number of heads: 2

Description Construction: Hulls, decks and pilothouse are constructed from vacuum bagged SP Systems Ampreg epoxy resin and high performance glass laminate cored with “Core-Cell” SAN foam and PVC foam. All exterior surfaces are spray painted with linear polyurethane coating.  Crossbeams are built of uni-directional carbon fiber/epoxy with foam cored epoxy/glass bulkheads. Extensive use is made of uni-directional carbon fiber reinforcement in high load areas of hulls, decks and bulkheads. Interior joinerwork and floorboards are all cored panels to provide stiffness at low weight.   Propulsion and Steering Starboard: Volvo D2-50 new 2018,  diesel saildrive (new 2022) engine  (April 2024 engine hours 2100) Port: D2-55, new 2016, diesel saildrive (new 2024) engine (April 2024 hours 2850) Recent engine service included replacement of mixing elbow and oil pans. Dual instrument panels with tachometer and engine monitoring gauges and alarms. Primary and secondary fuel filters. Dual “ZF Micro Commander” electronic single lever engine controls mounted at pilothouse inside helm. Three blade bronze folding type propellers by FlexOFold Rudder blades are fiberglass composite, high performance hydrofoil section with solid Titanium rudder stocks turning in low friction bushings.       Carbon Mast and Booms Carbon Fiber Spars (Mast, main boom, jib boom, forward crossbeam and compression beam) from King Composites. Standing rigging replaced in 2022 and 2024. Painted mast, deck stepped with two sets of rod diamonds over single spreader. Masthead light, masthead VHF, wind instruments All halyards and reefing lines are led to cockpit. Boom has internal reefing lines, topping lift Self tacking jib with  Harken Unit 3 MKIV reefing/furling unit (2016) Genoa Unit 4 MKIV reefing/furling unit (2016)   Sails Main, North Sails 3DI with 3 reef points, 2019 (update) Genoa, North Sails, 3DI, 2019 Self tacking Jib, North Sails, 3DI, 2019 A3 Spinnaker, North Sails, 2019 A5 Spinnaker, Quantum Sails, 2022   Standing Rigging All type 316 1×19 SS Dyform wire rope stays and shrouds (new 2021) Navtec rod for mast diamond stays (new 2024)   Running Rigging Dyneema halyards and control lines. Low stretch sheets (2022, 2024)   Deck Hardware Winches: 4x Harken #60 Performa 3 speed electric winches (2016) with motors from (2016, 2022, 2022 and 2023) 1x Andersen 46 ST 2 speed electric 2x Andersen 46 ST 2 speed manual   Harken Mini-Maxi main sheet traveler 11’6” long Harken self tacking jib traveler, 12’ long Harken ball bearing blocks are standard equipment. Spinlock  rope clutches   Daggerboards Two cored glass fiber asymmetric “hi lift” daggerboards in epoxy/glass laminate trunks with low friction bushings Up and down haul control lead to cockpit   Collision Bulkheads Each hull has two collision bulkheads forward.   Electrical: 2022 American Power 42i 100amp 24V alternators, 2022 2 Balmar MC-624 Balmer regulators, 2022 Lithionics 630 amp hours batteries with BMS, 2022 Phillippi PSM-2 system monitor, 2022 (10) 100watt Solbian Solar Panels, 2019  4x Kyocera Solar Panels, 130 watt output each 10x Solbian SP100L Solar Panels, 100 watts each (2) Air Silent X wind turbines, 2022 Western Co WRM 15 Solar charge controllers, 2016 Victron Charge Controller Solar Regulator: WRM15 charge controller 24-volt circuit breaker panel with voltage and amp meters. 2x engine start batteries Battery monitor Frensch LED  lights Resolux full spectrum fluorescent lights in galley and work areas LED red night lighting within the pilothouse Chart light   AC System Magnum 4000W Inverter/charger, 24V DC 105A charger, 120/240VAC Output 60Hz (2020) Shore Power: 120v or 220v 50 amp and 30 amp  AC outlets are installed in the following places.  (1) each head, (1) galley, (1) workbench, (2) nav. Station, (1) port side of pilothouse settee. Isolation Transformer (2016)   Tanks (2) 100 gallon diesel fuel tanks each with deck fill, shut off and gauge (2)  80 gallon water tanks each with deck fill, vent and gauge   Watermaker  2x 14gph Spectra 24v 340Z Catalina watermaker.This includes remote operation and monitoring in pilot house (gph production, ppm of product water, water pressure at filter and water pressure at feed pump).   Navigation & Electronics Garmin AIS – AIS650 Class B (2018)​ Garmin 7616xsv Chartplotter (2021) 16 inch Nav station unit Garmin 7607xsv Chartplotter (2019) 7 inch Cockpit station Depth – 2 sounding units (one on each hull)  GPS – Garmin  Garmin Radar VHF – 2x ICOM with Digital Selective Calling (DSC) (helm station and nav station) Wind – NKE masthead unit NKE Autopilot NKE multi-display  gyropilot outside and inside NKE remote autopilot ICOM IC-M605 VHF radio with cockpit remote, 2020 ICOM IC-M802 SSB radio Backup GPS Furuno GP-32 dgps Iridium GO Satellite Communications Stereo: – Fusion 3 zone Sound System – Fusion 1600 watt amplifier (2018) – Pilothouse speakers, cockpit speakers and aft platform speakers WiFi Hailer PA Horn, 2020   Hull and Deck Ventilation: (16) Deck hatches, all Lewmar Ocean Series. Accommodation area hatches are equipped with Ocean Air roller shade/screens. (don’t think there are 16) (6) opening portlights with clear plexi windows, three in each outboard hull side An opening port is located adjacent to each double berth Cowl vents in engine rooms and in each head (15) Hella fans, two in each aft double berth,  four in each forward double berth, one in the galley, one each in the pilothouse helm station and nav area.   Air Conditioning and Heating: 1 Marine Air 1600btu Aircon for pilot house and aft cabins (2) Climma 4200 BTU reverse cycle AirCon 115v – one in each midship cabin (2) D4 Espar Diesel Heaters   Rails and Lifelines: Custom fabricated SS stanchions with dyneema lifelines. Custom fabricated polished SS pushpits Integral swim step on rudder Swim ladder on starboard step   Anchor Handling: Dual bow anchor rollers enable two anchors to be easily used at the same time. Lewmar V4  windlass with rope/chain gypsy  and dual direction switch. Self-bailing lockers for self stowing chain and rode.   Anchors: Ultra Stainless anchor 100 lbs. (2017), with 140′ 3/8” chain and 250′ nylon rode Fortress FX-37 (2016), 150′ nylon Salt water washdown   Cleats and Docklines Six 10″ docking cleats, 2 bow, 2 stern, 2 springline Two 12” mooring cleats Four (4) 5/8″ 3 strand nylon docking lines each 50′ in length are supplied.   Navigation Lights LED masthead Tri-color and anchor light Mast mounted steaming light with deck flood light LED deck level running lights     Exterior Lighting Aft deck amber LED lights Aft deck floodlights Underwater bow lights   Interior Varnished walnut, cabinet door frames, fiddles and trim. Teak and holly laminate soles in accommodation spaces Semi-gloss polyurethane finish in accommodation areas 2020: New upholstery for pilothouse settee seats and other cushions.   Pilothouse Port and starboard settee seats both have a varnished wood table. Port side table is a movable “coffee table”. Starboard side table is a dining table configured so that it can  be moved on the aft deck for open air dining. Settee seats have partitioned stowage beneath via lift out covers in the seat top.   Inside Helm Station A 30” destroyer type wheel is mounted to starboard with a 4″ flush mount Ritchie SS-2000 compass, engine instrument panels,  electronic gear shift/throttle control and sailing instruments (depth,wind,speed) located within easy reach of the wheel.   Pilot House Nav. Station Extra large chart  table measuring 55″ x 34″ with full size chart drawer beneath Two file drawers Extra outlets for laptop computers, printer, etc.. Tank Tender, 4 tank monitor   Bow Nets High strength, race boat style,  Dyneema knotless net.   Aft Deck Aft deck Bimini in Stamoid fabric, 2020 Dinghy hoist and dinghy tie downs built into the aft deck Four large flush deck lockers along the forward side of aft deck for stowage. Outside dining table Seamac Sliding door for entrance to pilothouse Stainless steel bimini frame with 8 led lights   Galley Force 10 (2023),  four burner propane stove with automatic temperature control oven and broiler. A remote solenoid propane shut-off switch is provided. Two 20lb. composite propane bottles are located in a self venting locker Panasonic microwave oven Galley sink is a deep double bowl polished stainless steel with strainers set flush into a Granicoat counter top. Hot and cold pressurized water delivered by single lever mixer. Ample drawers, lockers and shelves for storage. Built in trash container   Refrigeration A custom fabricated side by side refrigerator/ freezer (6 and 6 cu/ft capacity) is located in the galley, inboard side.  Adjustable shelves included in each compartment. Each unit uses a separate highly efficient SeaFrost compressor with electronic control thermostat providing redundancy.   Aft Cabins Each hull has a separate aft cabin which contains a queen size double berth (60” wide, 80” long, mattress new 2022) large hanging locker, built in dresser, two bench seats with additional stowage beneath seats and berth.  A deck hatch and opening ports provide excellent cross ventilation.   Midship Cabins Each hull has a sleeping cabin amidships that contains a large king sized berth, matress new 2022.  A hanging locker, built in dresser, storage cabinet and bookshelf is included. A large deck hatch and two opening ports provide ventilation.   Heads Each head is equipped with a vanity with polished stainless steel sink with hot/cold pressure water via a mixer. Granicoat laminate countertop and stowage locker beneath. Two large stowage lockers with shelves for towels, etc. are within easy reach.   Tecma silence electric toilet plumbed to holding tank with valves for overboard discharge as well as pump out.   Showers Semi-gloss polyurethane finish for easy cleanup Hot/cold pressure water with single lever mixer Waterproof light Electric sump pump   Hot Water Heater Isotemp 40 Litre   Washing Machine: LG 5kg washer dryer   Outside Shower A hot and cold water pressurized rinse station is installed on the starboard hull transom boarding platform.   Salt Water Washdown Pump for deck washdown is located in the hull forward locker   Workbench (port hull) Drawers and lockers below for tool and parts storage Lockers above for stowage         Exterior Finish The entire above water line exterior of the boat is spray painted with linear polyurethane, Awlcraft polyurethane coating, 2020.  Walking areas on deck non-skid finished. In the cockpit, the floors are SeaDek.     Hull Rub Rail An external rub rail with solid metal cap.     Dinghy AB 11’ hard bottom inflatable, 2022 Yamaha 20HP  4-stroke (2017)  

Disclaimer The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.

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Atlantic Catamarans were building fast cruising cats with forward cockpits when Gunboat was still in short trousers, and the most famous of the range of these performance cats is the Atlantic 57 . In fact, Peter Johnstone, the original Gunboat owner, was inspired by many of the features of the Atlantic range – the forward cockpit for example. Read our Gunboat 62 review to find out more on that one.

They come in various rig configurations, but the most popular is the cutter rig with the self tacking jib boom and genoa. These light cats with a powerful sail plan are famous for their fast acceleration and ability to get going in light air.

Chris White has been designing these kinds of performance-cruising multihulls for over 40 years and they are very fast on all points of sail. These are stiff , light boats that look beautiful : a racer on the outside and a traditional luxury yacht on the inside. We are in the same territory as the Dazcat 1495 and Marsaudon Composites. They will be ahead of the likes of the HH OC50 when rounding the first marker.

Photos: Credit “Cruise of the Boundless” and TeamNogal.com.

• These cats are fast. You will see speeds approaching or even matching more expensive luxury performance cruising catamarans at a price comparable to, say, a Catana. A Marsaudon Composites ORC57 catamaran would be a good comparison to a newer boat.
• Atlantic 57s are set up for short handed or even single handed sailing. That´s the beauty of the forward cockpit – you never leave the safety of this sail handling area for raising and lowering the mainsail and reefing. This set up has inspired later designs like the KC54 from Kinetic and the Gunboats of course.
• Visibility is about as good as you can get from the mast looking forward, or from the inside helm forward in the saloon. And that helps you to avoid collisions – another plus factor on the safety front.
• With those assymmetrical daggerboards you will sail upwind as well or even better than a monohull. She´s fast on all points of sail.
• The Atlantic 57 has very strong fixed fins on the hulls. That really protects your hulls, props and rudders in the event of a grounding. The fins are deeper than the rudders.
• Ventilation. With that forward cockpit door and the aft sliding doors open, you couldn´t ask for better ventilation.
• The flip side to that forward cockpit is that it can get wet in rough weather. Sure, you can helm from inside, but what about when you need to reef? It´s not as bad on the leeward side, but in filthy weather you are going to have your oilies on and you´ll be dripping all over that nice saloon.
• The 57 has been set up for short handed sailing, but she´s still reasonably complex to sail. Once you know your boat, this gets easier over time of course, but those asymmetrical daggerboards, for example, like to be switched over on every tack, otherwise you are going to lose the benefit. Compared to other cats on the same performance level, she´s pretty easy to sail though.
• The configuration is galley down. This could be seen as a “pro” in many cases (more space up top, safer when cooking, safer cooking on a watch system) but I include it as a “con” simply because this is a deal breaker for many people who like a big view of the horizon when cooking and who like to feel connected to the main living space. Ultimately, this is a matter of personal preference. Galley down works in Prouts and it works in Gunboat 55s.

The Atlantic 57 evolved from the 55: she´s a large blue water cruising cat with a forward cockpit where all the sailing happens, coupled with a cosy helm in the saloon, a big “back porch” for relaxing and plenty of space down below in those twin hulls. Owners are passionate about this configuration.

One piece of feedback I got from an owner was “ FWIW, we respectfully disagree with your listing the forward cockpit as anything other than the highest point on the “Pro” list. The forward cockpit on the A57 is a working cockpit as well as a living cockpit. Making it part of the negative list, even when going to weather, would be like listing “engine noise” as a negative point of a Ferrari. The design and size of the boat keeps it above any spray even when going to weather 90% of the time. But I get it … it is hard to grasp how wonderful it is until you sail it”. 

Well, I can´t really argue with any of that, but you are going to be more exposed than a covered helm: all boats are compromises and it does have its advantages as well.

Try not to weigh your Atlantic 57 down with too much stuff, or you´ll negate the whole purpose of this yacht- and that´s to get there before anyone else. This is a boat that was designed to clock off 300 mile days and over.

The A57 carries a little more sail than the A55 in the fore triangle area. And the catamaran was also powered up with assymmetrical daggerboards. In addition, the newer design comes in around 2/3 of a tonne lighter (1500 lbs)

Construction

There are various yards around the world that are skilled at bringing these designs to life, principally Alwoplast in Chile and others on the east and west coasts of the US (Aquidneck Custom Composites),  and in South Africa. She is built with epoxy resin, triaxial E-glass, and Core-Cell and AirLite foams.

Her core is thermoformed and her laminates vacuum bagged. Add a Full Carbon rig by Hall Spars and Titanium extras and you have one beautiful machine.

An Atlantic 57 weighs in at only 12 metric tonnes (26,500 lbs) light. Carbon-fiber is used in the crossbeam and hulls.

The hulls are slender instead of plump and purist – there are no bumps or chines, tricks that Catana uses for instance to pad out the accommodation space.

The bridgedeck height has been designed to minimize any loss of energy from the waves through slap: there is over 1 metre (3.5 feet) of clearance on this boat for waves to pass harmlessly through.

That forward cockpit is the big USP and it´s a configuration that has been copied by many luxury performance brands since. The boat accelerates quickly in gusts and from this vantage point you are in the thick of it.

The wheel and all of the sail handling is located in front of the saloon, behind the mast.

Atlantic 57s are fast to windward under staysail and mainsail and with the genoa out, she´s even faster off the wind sailing at around 70% of wind speed in a force 4 and up to the mid teens and over when reefed down up to a force 7.

You´ll be seeing some 20 knot surfs.

For shorthanded sailing, the cutter rig is perfect: unleash the genoa in light air off the wind, and then switch to the staysail on the jib boom when the wind freshens.

Atlantic 57 cats come with 2.7m (9 foot) fins that protect the hull in the event of a grounding. It also means that you can beach these cats. They come with asymmetric daggerboards that provide lift upwind. An Atlantic cat will match or better a monohull when close hauled.

Downwind, you can bring out the asymmetric cruising spinnaker. Electric Harken winches help tame the loads on the the 87 sq metre (933-square-foot) mainsail,

The helming and sail handling is all done from that forward cockpit, but it´s snugly connected to the pilothouse forward in the saloon. There´s a weatherproof cockpit door forward and a sliding door aft, giving you an additional inside helm with great visibility for when the weather turns along with a nav station / control centre, a dining area and a lounging area.

She´s powered with twin 54-HP Yanmars that push the boat along at a crusing speed of 10 knots in calm conditions at 2,500 rpm. That´s the advantage of those sculpted hulls for you. Alternate the engines to save fuel and you will still be pushed along at 8 knots in calm conditions.

Living Space

Both hulls have spacious master cabins with a roomy vanity and head amidships. The configuration is galley down, with plenty of working space and room for your cooking, cooling and freezing equipment in the starboard hull. In the port hull, in place of the galley you have room for more berths, an office or a work area for all of your tools. And aft, both hulls have a double berth with a dresser, seat, and locker. Up front in the forepeaks, you´ve got plenty of space to store you sails and fenders.

It´s up on the main deck where you will benefit from all of that space that comes with a 57 foot catamaran. The saloon area is light and airy at anchor thanks to that forward cockpit door. With the sliding doors open, the breeze flows through. The big back porch is another real winner , a quiet zone away from it all either under way or at anchor. On lucky evenings, you´ll be facing west so you can slowly watch the sun go down with a cold one in hand. If you love the shade, this set up takes some beating- you are well protected from the sun.

And there´s room for al fresco dining out here too, around the adjustable table.

Sailing Blogs: Atlantic 57

Cruise of the Boundless is well worth a read.

TeamNogal is a well put together blog of an Atlantic 57 called Nogal. Read the section where they describe the mods they made to the boat before setting off on their trip.

If you are in the market for a real sailing cat, the Atlantic 57 has to be on your shopping list. This performance cruising catamaran is competing against the likes of Outremer, Balance and Catana. It´s a design that has gradually evolved over the years and sits at the very top of the field.

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• By Tom Linskey
• Updated: June 4, 2008

Go sailing with one of the world’s top cruising-multihull designers on his brand-new creation and you learn a few things. Such as why the state of cruising-cat design is where it is today. And why a cruising multi has to be built light-but not too light. And why a cruising cat can shine as a fuel-efficient “powerboat” as well. And why a successful cruising catamaran is all about balancing design elements-making the right compromises in the right places and in the right amounts. And, as I discovered during a day with cat designer and advocate Chris White, you’ll learn about not only yacht design but also the designer.

In a building sea breeze, we’re short-tacking Lely, a cutter-rigged, composite-built Atlantic 57, through East Passage, in Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay. Chris White is at the carbon-fiber wheel, steering with two fingers and looking up to check the mainsail trim. During the tacks, I pop the daggerboards up and down as the self-tacking staysail flips across and the battens of the big, high-aspect mainsail rumble over. When the sails fill, Lely, unburdened by the 15,000-or-so pounds of ballast of a similarly sized monohull, jumps forward. The sudden acceleration, a signature move of performance cats, rocks each of us back on our heels for a second. For most single-hulled sailors, this sensation is unsettling, if not downright subversive. I glance over at White. For the first time during a day of sea-trialing, he’s allowed a thin smile to play over his face, the kind of look that says: I’m satisfied. Almost.

For the 52-year-old White, who for 28 years has been drawing performance-cruising multihulls that not only reach and run fast but also sail to windward, being almost satisfied is part of the balancing act of designing a modern cruising cat. Lely, an evolution of White’s Atlantic 55 (half-a-dozen 55s have been built, including White’s own boat, Javelin), embodies that balance. Lely is light and stiff, strong where she needs to be, and beautiful where you’d like her to be. On deck, she bristles with raceboat-worthy sailhandling gear. Belowdecks, she is, unmistakably, a luxury yacht-the vertical-grain and plain-sawn cherry joiner work gleams under coats of high-gloss varnish. So, you might wonder, where are all the compromises in Lely’s balancing act?

A large cruising cat such as Lely is a seemingly unlimited canvas for all your cruising dreams: a sailhandling cockpit, a wide “back porch” for lounging, the enticing layout possibilities of two hulls, and enough deck space for your fleet of water toys. Lely boasts a whopping 1,052 square feet of usable living space, which is about a 68-percent increase over the 625 square feet you’ll find in a contemporary 57-foot, center-cockpit monohull. Still, in terms of systems, Lely seems to have it all: separate 12-volt-DC and 24-volt-DC electrical circuits and 120-volt and 220-volt shore power (220-volt AC makes for easy plug-in while cruising in the Med, among other places); a 920-amp-hour battery bank; a Fischer Panda ACG 4000 genset; air-conditioning and diesel-fired forced-air heat; a Spectra Newport 400 watermaker (it makes 17 gallons per hour); and a large fridge/freezer, freshwater electric toilets, saltwater deck-washdown gear, and a full suite of navigation and communication electronics. The only modern convenience “missing” is a washer/dryer-and, yes, there’s plenty of room to add one. But in the interests of saving weight and reducing complication-two areas over which Chris White agonizes-a washer/dryer may be one of those temptations you should do your best to resist. As Chris will be the first to tell you, if you fill up a cat’s spaces with endless amounts of “stuff,” you’ll sink the performance to that of an ordinary monohull.

The first step toward making sure that the finished Lely would stay cat fast came with her construction: epoxy resin, triaxial E-glass, and Core-Cell and AirLite foams. But even with weight-efficient building materials, given Lely’s nearly 3,000 square feet of hull, deck, bridgedeck, and cabin-house panels, plus numerous bulkheads and three main crossbeams, incremental increases in weight can add up quickly. Builder Aquidneck Custom Composites used vacuum bagging and an impregnator to control the resin-to-glass ratio and keep the weight down (at 25,500 pounds, the boat is lighter than many 44-foot production cats). Aquidneck Custom Composites’ Bill Koffler and Scott O’Donnell, drawing on 30 years of high-end composite raceboat-construction experience between them, made Lely’s laminate not only light and strong but also, in places, elegant. “We try to eliminate metal wherever we can,” says Koffler. “Metal is heavy, and it’s prone to rust and corrosion and to leaks at attachment points.” Thus Lely sports curving, translucent, bonded-in engine mounts; fuel-filter and steering-cable brackets; and even dorade vents made of biaxial E-glass and formed from male molds-cool!

The construction also features carbon-fiber crossbeam flanges and longitudinal bands of carbon in the hulls. So rather than winding up an overweight, overstuffed creature, a cat in name only, Lely exemplifies the new breed of cruising cat: light, powered up, yet lacking nothing in the way of bells and whistles. “In the 1970s and 1980s, the yachting establishment considered multihullers to be the ‘bad boys,'” notes Chris White. “Those guys didn’t want to pay attention, they didn’t want to try new things. It’s taken many years to overcome the ‘multis break, multis turn over’ mindset.” The shift to grudging acceptance began with cats designed and built for the charterboat industry-boats that traded performance for sleeps-and-drinks-a-crowd appeal. White dismisses such boats as, well-let’s just call them “chartermarans,” and he makes the point that cats that are truly designed and built for cruising have moved beyond the charter-cat formula. White’s Atlantic series of cruising cats (measuring 42, 48, and 55 feet LOA) are notable for holding steadfastly to his long-held design tenets. The hulls are slender instead of plump (Lely, for example, has a 12:1 waterline length-to-beam ratio; many charter cats are around 9:1). No hull bump outs, steps, chines, or bulges make an appearance to indulge the accommodations. And the height of the bridgedeck, crucial to minimize wave slap in a seaway, is generous: Lely has a whopping three and one-half feet of above-water clearance.

And, of course, there’s weight. The immutable law of multihull design? Lighter is faster. But isn’t it possible to build a cruising cat too light? “There is such a thing as too light,” says White. “Extremely light racing multis are less stable and less durable, and their motion can be violent. A cruising cat, by nature, is in a different category. By the time you get all the machinery and cruising payload aboard, you’re set up for comfortable ocean cruising. But if the boat is built heavy or overloaded, at some point the top end-the ability to surge beyond 12 knots and sail consistently at 14, 16, 18 knots-will disappear. The sail area-to-displacement ratio of a cat is critical. If you cram more and more stuff into the boat without regard for weight, you’ll pay a performance penalty.”

These are things that White knows from experience, because he’s not only drawn his own boats but also built a few of them. In 1972, at the age of 18, he designed his first multihull, a 31-foot trimaran named Shadowfax, and built it himself-right there in his parents’ driveway. For the next two years, White cruised his engineless tri in Caribbean and South American waters, all the while pondering how to design a trimaran that would be better suited to ocean sailing. Upon returning to the States, he began studying yacht design in earnest, first through mail-order courses, then by working for other designers. In 1981, he and his wife, Katie, put together Juniper, a 52-foot ketch-rigged, cedar/epoxy trimaran, and with their growing family sailed the boat from Nova Scotia to the Caribbean. More recently, White has cruised aboard Javelin, his Atlantic 55, from South Africa to Guatemala, then home to Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. Firsthand liveaboard and bluewater experience-when it starts to blow and it’s just you and your wife and two boys crossing an ocean-has a way of bringing a dose of reality to the drawing board.

Under sail, Lely feels right: The boat reacts quickly to puffs, and the steering is sensitive and light. The biggest departure from other cats is, of course, the forward cockpit, which White first developed in 1983 for one of his 50-footers. “The awkwardness of trying to sail a boat from behind a 7-foot-high bulkhead just felt wrong to me,” White explains. So he placed the wheel and sailhandling zone forward of the house, right behind the mast, and he hasn’t looked back. In 10 knots of wind, Lely sails to windward under staysail and mainsail at 7.2 knots; with the masthead genoa rolled out, she reaches at 10 to 11 knots in about 14 knots of wind. White has subsequently taken the boat upwind in 30 knots of breeze; under staysail and single-reefed mainsail, he reports that the boat sailed at 13.5 knots. For shorthanded cruisers, the cutter rig is a natural; unroll the genoa in light air and off the wind, drop down to the staysail when the breeze picks up.

Lely sports “belly fins” that are 9 feet long by 1 foot deep (measured from the hull body); these spare the hull from damage during a grounding, and they’ll also support the boat’s weight on the beach or at the boatyard. Unlike many other cruising catamarans, Lely has deep, foam-filled, asymmetric daggerboards that provide lift when sailing upwind. Deep daggerboards (or centerboards) are central to White’s insistence that a multihull should sail to windward as well as or better than a monohull.

For downwind work, Lely has an asymmetric cruising spinnaker; other cruising cats, including many Atlantic 55s, use a screecher flown from a bowsprit prod. Harken electric-powered main halyard/mainsheet and traveler/runner winches and a plethora of sailhandling gear will help tame the large sail loads; the 933-square-foot mainsail, for example, demands respect.

Lely’s cockpit-forward steering and sailhandling layout is closely linked to the 16-foot-wide bridgedeck pilothouse. Accessible through a weatherproof cockpit door and a sliding door aft, the bridgedeck combines an inside steering station with 360-degree visibility, a navigation/computer workstation area, and a saloon with a dinette table and a lounging area laid around a jazzy little cocktail table. The pilothouse zone, in addition to keeping the person on the helm warm and dry when it’s cold and wet outside, allows Lely to function rather nicely as a powerboat. With the twin 54-horsepower Yanmar diesels turning over at 2,500 rpm and burning about a gallon an hour, Lely moves along at 10 knots; the boat cruises at 8 knots on one engine alone. Compare that with, say, a 47-foot trawler, which needs a 174-horsepower diesel burning 6 gallons an hour just to make 8 knots. Now, which boat is the better powerboat? Need we even mention that, with its wide wheelbase, a cat doesn’t roll under power?

Lely’s accommodation plan, with identical master cabins each having a roomy vanity, head, and toilet area amidships in each hull, maximizes privacy. The galley, with a 9.3-cubic-foot fridge and 7-cubic-foot freezer, stretches for 9 feet in the starboard hull, adjacent to the bridgedeck stairway. In the same location in the port hull, the owner’s pride and joy: a stainless-steel workbench, vise, lots of tool drawers, and a slide-out toolbox. Aft, both hulls feature a double berth with a dresser, seat, and hanging locker. The forward 16 feet of each hull (with two collision bulkheads) is largely empty-the right place to stow such bulky, sometimes-damp gear as sails and fenders.

The bridgedeck’s saloon area, flooded with light by large, bronze-tinted, tempered-glass pilothouse windows all around, forms a natural meeting place. I suspect that, given the views and the easy connection with the world outside, it will be a favored hangout when Lely is under way as well as at anchor. The 16-foot-wide by 8-foot-long “back porch,” with seating built into the back of the cabin bulkhead, at first glance seems underutilized. But then the dinette table, with its clever fold-down legs, is lifted off the cocktail table underneath and set up on the porch-instant alfresco, if you will. Pull up a few deck chairs and you’ve got a movable feast. The back porch also sports dinghy davits (the tender can be swung inboard and lashed to the deck if desired) and a vinyl-coated bimini/water-catchment arrangement.

What really matters, in the end, is how a cruising boat fulfills the wishes of its owner and how well it does the bidding of its builder and designer.

Cruising boats have gotten bigger. In the second edition of The Voyager’s Handbook, author Beth A. Leonard notes that boats between 40 and 50 feet make up two-thirds of most cruising fleets-that’s an increase in average size of about 10 feet over the past decade. So where does Lely-at 57 feet and packing more than 28 feet of beam, able to knock off 350-mile days while accommodating a host family and a guest family in comfort-fit into the world of cruising? There’s no doubt that Lely is in the “dream-dream big” category. But if your cruising fantasies are big and you can make them come true, why not go for it?

“A cruising boat is a tool,” says White. “As sailors, we can only do what our tools allow us to do. If a cruising boat allows us to go places fast and in comfort and have fun doing it, we’re going to go.” Lely, a successful balancing act, was definitely born to go places.

Tom Linskey and his wife, Harriet, are preparing to head south to Brazil, where they’ll begin cruising on their own new catamaran, a Dolphin 460.

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