ΜΟΟΝ POWER 60

Is Moon Yacht's first ever powercat good enough to make an impact in the multihull market? We head to St Katharine Docks to find out...

- Alex Smith

What do you get if you take a sailing cat and modify it for use as a power-driven leisure boat? For the most part, the answer is a huge piece of floating real estate that can be brought to market with far less substantial development costs than a purpose-built design. And that’s not necessarily a criticism.

Certainly, the extra beam, bulk and round bilge hull shape tends to usher a modified sailing cat into the sedate displacement only cruising bracket, while also making it tougher to find a mooring. The low-slung profile needed to accommodate a sailing rig can also make it difficult to orchestrate the living spaces to optimum effect. But the increased physical scale and the shared development costs also tends to mean more bang for your buck as well as an inherently stable and fuel-efficient cruising platform with masses of indoor and outdoor entertaining space.