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South Africa’s biggest composite catamaran is launched
20 June 2019
Cape Town’s Two Oceans Marine Manufacturing has launched South Africa’s biggest composite and leisure catamaran. Named Le Cerf, she is owned by Mason’s Travel a leading destination management company in Seychelles.
The Two Oceans 110 Day Charter Catamaran is designed for commercial day charters and for large groups of people. She will be based in Mahé, the largest island in the Seychelles archipelago.
Two Oceans Marine specialises in custom power and sailing catamarans from 23 to 110 foot – and bigger – and has 4,500 square meters of covered factory floor space in the Cape Town harbour and just outside the harbour. The company is one of a handful of large custom catamaran manufacturers in the world.
Cape Town’s boatbuilding industry is the second largest producer of recreational catamarans in the world, after France. The city’s companies export 80% of product produced and attract a positive trade balance of around US$73m annually. Boatbuilding exports have grown by 20,54% annually year on year since 2014 in Cape Town (Quantec, 2019).
The new catamaran has both an upper and lower deck and a flybridge. The upper deck has plenty of casual seating as well as a bar and dining seating for 60 guests and storage space for snorkelling gear. The lower deck has dining seating for 90 guests as well as casual seating. The lower deck also has a bar and a dance floor, storage lockers, fridges, freezers and chilly bins. All stairways and walkways have blue effects LED lighting, and she has a Fusion sound system.
Le Cerf can carry 275 people.
The galley is housed in the starboard hull and can cater for 250 guests onboard. The starboard hull also has many storage lockers and a crew rest area and bunks for the crew if needed on delivery. The port hull houses the guest WC facilities – three ladies’ heads and wash up basins fore of the companionway and two gents’ heads and two urinals and wash up basins aft.
On her transom, she has a six metre tender on a fixed davit that can ferry 20 people to and from the boat.
The front deck has trampolines, more seating and a beach ladder.
The Two Oceans 110 Day Charter Power Catamaran is yet another successful collaboration between Two Oceans and renown South African naval architect Anton du Toit of Du Toit Yacht Design. She is the 11th large custom catamaran that the partnership has launched, with an 82-foot carbon performance sailing catamaran and an 85-foot power catamaran due to be launched later in the year.
Two Oceans Marine has also recently launched the Two Oceans 700 Day Charter Sailing Catamaran, also designed by Du Toit Yacht Design. She is bound for Jamaica, where she will accommodate 170 people on day charters.
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