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Whilst Catamarans are very stable the main problem is that apart from the saloon which is always huge, in our view unnecessarily so, and the main bedroom, every other compartment is a squeeze because they have to fit them in one or the other of the two hulls which individually are very narrow indeed.

The fact is that all but one of the “cabins” will be a tunnel , usually at the stern of the boat in which there will be no room to walk around or get changed, there will be exceptionally low headroom and minimal storage.

All cabins will generally be windowless and depend on a hatch for ventilation and light. If it rains you swelter.

The galley and bathrooms can by necessity be no wider than the width of each pontoon. The bathrooms will usually share a shower with a toilet with no glass shower screen, so everything gets wet.

There is absolutely no storage below decks so bags and cases have to be stored in the small cabins further reducing what minimal clothes space that may have existed. Because there is no room below decks the storage of sufficient water is impossible.

At the end of the day these boats were designed to accommodate two couple over a long week end.  They were never intended for ten people for a week. The only way you can solve the problems accompanying bareboat charter is to start from the bottom and design a boat for just that purpose.

That is what we at Coral Reef Charters have done.

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