{"id":48,"date":"2022-10-29T10:57:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T00:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multihullbooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=48"},"modified":"2022-10-29T10:58:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T00:58:31","slug":"nearly-a-year-has-passed-and-its-all-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.multihullbooks.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2022\/10\/29\/nearly-a-year-has-passed-and-its-all-changed\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly a year has passed and it’s all changed…."},"content":{"rendered":"
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It has been ten months since I have blogged on the Multihull Books site.\u00a0\u00a0 In that time we sold our Crowther 43 and purchased a Roger Hill 15.9m catamaran.\u00a0\u00a0 This boat – at 53ft – is way out of my league in size, price and performance,\u00a0 but opportunities only knock once and we grabbed at the chance.\u00a0 It was a stressful few months trying to pull the purchase together – after the sale of our Crowther 43 we then sold everything not bolted down in the yard – the camper, the 7m Markham dominator canyon runner power cat, the tinnie – even my Landrover went to get us over the line.\u00a0\u00a0 Working over 140 days straight also helped.<\/p>\n

Our new cat was built in 2004 by Steve Bull. You might know of some of his work.\u00a0 The company is Matera Yachts and their build speciality is performance catamarans – most recently the AC72’s –\u00a0 Team New Zealand and Prada! ( https:\/\/www.materayachts.com\/construction).\u00a0\u00a0 Originally launched as Eye Spy, it was sold in 2010 and sailed to Australia, renamed ‘Eye Spy DJ’.\u00a0\u00a0 We are her third owners.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We have kept the name from our Crowther 43 and renamed Eye Spy DJ as ‘Favourite Child’.<\/p>\n

Favourite Child was built to Survey and in full 1A, 2C Survey when we purchased her.\u00a0\u00a0 Over the past ten months the projects have been rolling as we set her up as our new home.\u00a0\u00a0 We had no intention of using her commercially so we withdrew the survey certificate and began making her lighter and faster.\u00a0\u00a0 Off came the extra fuel tanks, the 30 lifejackets, the second 10 man life raft and the defunct generator.\u00a0 We removed lots of stainless and cloth when removing the soft top bimini.\u00a0 In went a washing machine, a new hot water service and on went a hard top bimini and new solar panels.\u00a0\u00a0 The charter cruise sails were purpose designed.\u00a0 We have replaced the jib and screecher and the new main is on the way – all in double taffeta Carbon.\u00a0\u00a0 Already she is speeding up.<\/p>\n

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It has been ten months since I have blogged on the Multihull Books site.\u00a0\u00a0 In that time we sold our Crowther 43 and purchased a Roger Hill 15.9m catamaran.\u00a0\u00a0 This boat – at 53ft – is way out of my league in size, price and performance,\u00a0 but opportunities only knock once and we grabbed at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,4,2],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-catamaran","tag-favourtie-child","tag-roger-hill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.multihullbooks.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.multihullbooks.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.multihullbooks.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.multihullbooks.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.multihullbooks.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.multihullbooks.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"http:\/\/www.multihullbooks.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.multihullbooks.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.multihullbooks.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.multihullbooks.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}