Maine Cat 41 Blue Bamboo

“My first goal was to make the 41 a good sailboat.”

Dick Vermeulen, designer and builder of the Maine Cat 41.

Finer hulls than the condo cats, twin daggerboards instead of mini-keels, and all composite construction add up to make a boat that will sail circles around the other brands touting that your liveaboard experience will be just like your land-based home. Above decks you have the expansive bridge deck covered by a permanent hardtop with 360° visibility and roll-up clears allowing you to control the environment. Below decks you'll find the living spaces open and airy, bright with enough wood accents so that it isn't stark.

This has always been a well maintained and well kept boat.

Blue Bamboo was built off the molds of the well loved Maine Cat 38 as prototype to the Maine Cat 41, in Bremen, Me. She is 3,000 lbs lighter than the 41 with expansive sugar scoops added. Her rotating carbon fiber rig, daggerboards, and slippery hulls allow her to sail faster than wind speed in light air and make 200+ mile days. The flat bottomed sugar scoops allow stable surfing when things pick up. This boat is sailed from the safety of a central cockpit with full weather protection, all electric winches and little need to go on deck (spinnaker only). She is ready and capable of everything from competitive local racing to single handed ocean crossings.

She has been lived aboard and singlehanded for the past seven years by a structural engineer who intended to use this boat for his second circumnavigation but life changes caused that plan to be scrapped and his beloved boat put up for sale.

Recent upgrades include:

• 2024 - Many new electronics components
• 2024 - New Colligo Dyneema standing and running rigging
• 2024 - 200’ of 3/8” ACCO G4 galvanized chain

• 2024 - New LED spreader lights and nav lights

Bridgedeck Salon and Pilot House:

• Dinette table forward with cushioned bench seats; winches with line clutches and line cubbies outboard
• Dinette table drops down to convert to a queen berth
• Companionway access to port and starboard hulls outboard w/pocket sliding doors
• Helm station pedestal center w/adjustable pedestal helm seat and adjustable swiveling pedestal captains seats on port and starboard
• 3 luxury Stidd chairs
• L-shaped cockpit bench seating aft on port and starboard with sheet winches center aft

Port hull:

• Single v-berth forward
• Head with overboard discharge next aft
• Double berth inboard w/storage cabinets below
• Galley aft

Starboard hull:

• Single v-berth forward with work desk / nav station aft
• Double berth inboard w/storage cabinets below
• Cabinets and head with shower stall aft and Nature's Head composting toilet.

Galley:

• 4 burner Broadwater stove/oven/broiler
• 3 aluminum propane tanks located in vented port cockpit locker
• Front loading refrigerator and top loading freezer, both with 6” insulation
• Isotherm Danfoss systems and digital control units
• 80 Qt /75L built-in cooler under stbd cockpit bench seat
• Double stainless steel sinks with spray nozzle adjacent to built in trash bin with cover for counter space

Additional:

• Heat: Supplied by two diesel heaters with wireless remotes which feed hot air on to the hot water tanks in lower storage chambers under the queen bunks providing a toasty bunk and hot water at the same time.
• Water: 120 Gal / 455L total; 2 X 40 Gal plastic tanks under midships cabin soles gravity fed from 50 Gal plastic tank on bridge deck (port)
• Holding Tanks: Two 20 Gal / 76 L tanks, one in each hull
• Watermaker: Spectra 380 model 16gal/hr
• Water Heaters: Qty 2 Isotherm 6 gal (below each queen bunk) with 12v heater elements and engine coolant loops
• Pressure pumps and accumulators in each hull

• Qty 6 x 100AH 12v Battleborn Lithium batteries with Victron monitor
• 1.85 KW of Sunbeam System solar panels
• qty 7 Victron solar charge controllers for redundancy and shade minimization (one controller configured to charge spare battery for emergency/diving hooka/trolling motor/etc; or contribute to the main house bank).
• 3000W Outback inverter charger - 7 AC ground fault outlets
• 50 amp service with dock cord and galvanic isolator
• 100A Balmar alternators with temperature shutoff, surge protection and centerfielder power distribution
• Two Echo Chargers to keep the engine starting batteries topped up
• LED cabin lights and RED interior nightlights
• Qty 8 x Camfro fans
• Qty 11 USB/USB-C outlets
• Spreader and running lights - new 2024

• B&G Zeus II 12” chart plotter - new 2024
• 4G broadband 16nm Radar on cabin top - new 2024
• Standard Horizon VHF/antenna/cable w/AIS screen - new 2024
• Em-Trak B924 Class B AIS Transceiver w/Wifi, Bluetooth & VHF antenna splitter (2w) - new 2024
• Airmar 200WX Apparent & True Wind Weather Instrument - WS-200WX - new 2024
• Airmar DST810 Smart Multi-sensor depth/speed/temp - new 2024
• NMEA 2000 backbone - new 2024
• Standard Horizon hand held VHF w/charger (needs battery)
• Iridium Go with external antenna
• Autopilot: Simrad AP 24/Mamba drive w/wireless remote (needs battery)

• Mainsail: Full-battened square top Dacron mainsail with 3 reefs (on Tides Marine track with Schaefer batten receptacles_ - good condition
• Working jib: Self tacking Dacron sail (on Profurl NC42 furler) - fair condition
• Genoa: Calvert Sails 120% (on Schaefer 2100 furling system) - 2021 - good condition
• Asymmetrical spinnaker (in sock) - good condition
• New Doyle stack pack which supports the boom with Dyneema lazy jacks (no topping lift)
• Stainless steel boom crutch
• 4-part mast rotation control lines and downhaul
• 4-part jibe preventer line with solid attachment points

Sail Area Dimensions:

• Mainsail: 715 ft² / 66.43 m²
• Jib: 281 ft² / 26.11 m²
• Screacher: 575 ft2 / 53.42 m²

• Assym. Spin: 1200 ft2 / 18.58 m²

• Rotating carbon fiber mast removed and inspected - 2024
• Carbon fiber boom with spring loaded stinger for lifting dinghy
• Colligo Dyneema standing and running rigging (fully covered and protected from chafe and UV) - new 2024
• Crossbeam: Aluminum crossbeam w/ aluminum A-frame support and S/S stays
• Bowsprit: 5' / 1.5m aluminum bowsprit
• 2 x Lewmar Ocean 54 self tailing 2 speed electric winches with remote switches at the helm station
• 2 x Lewmar Ocean 50 self tailing 2 speed electric winches, one with remote switch at helm
• Spinlock rope clutches, Lewmar traveller tracks, clean layout, no lines run across the decks
• Dyneema trampoline netting - fair to poor
• Dyneema double lifelines - good
• Kiwi Grip nonskid deck paint - good
• 2-part polyurethane hull paint - good
• Bottom paint - Jan 2025
• Steering: Whitlock Mamba Steering System rack and pinion gear to solid aluminum shafts
• Custom stainless steel boom gallows on hardtop
• Stainless steel rub-rails
• Full cockpit shade covers that allow open windows during rain showers
• Lewmar hatches with covers.
• Saltwater wash down pump

Anchoring:

• Main anchor is a 60 lb/27.3 kg stainless steel Manta Supreme with 200’ of 3/8” ACCO G4 galvanized chain (2024) and 500’ of 5/8” double braid.
• Lewmar Ocean electric windlass with capstan below deck in chain locker, controllable from helm or chain locker.
• Bridle and chain attachment.
• Secondary anchor - 35 lb Delta with 30’ of chain & ~ 100ft of line
• Storm Anchor - 50 lb Fortress with 30’ of chain (in midships bilge)
• 18’ diameter Paratech Sea Anchor with 500’ of 5/8” double braided nylon line in deployment bag and custom extra long bridle.
• Custom designed composite chain plates on sugar scoops for Jordan Series Drogue with 151 cups, Dyneema line and custom rail mounted deployment bag.

Safety Equipment:

• ACR model PLB-350B 406MHz EPIRB
• 2 x Mustang inflatable life jacket/harnesses
• 2 x Mustang full length survival flotation jackets
• 2 x Sterns life jackets
• Survivor 06 manual desalinator
• flare kit - out of date

Twin 29 HP Yanmar model 3GM30 inboard diesel engines (2002), with Yanmar SD20 Saildrives in good condition. The propellers are Flex-O-Fold 2-blade bronze props. ZF engine controls at the helm station with remote and 20' umbilical (great for solo anchoring and docking). There is 50 Gal tank on bridgedeck (stbd) w/gravity feed to engine.

Engine Spares:

• Yanmar spares
• Flexofold propeller hub
• Flexfold propeller blade with factory locking screw propeller shaft
• Full set of sail-drive seals for engines and propellers
• Raw water inlet valve
• Oil and fuel filters, belts, zincs and other consumables
• Oil change pump
• Echo charger
• Starter solenoids
• 60 amp alternator with voltage controller

• Misc gaskets, fasteners, hoses, etc

Spare Parts:

• Spare Mamba autopilot drive (old and worn but should get you home)
• 12” Zeus II chart plotter
• Spare hatch hinges, handles and parts
• Windlass gearbox and motor
• Windlass control solenoid
• Freshwater pump
• Wash down pump
• Whale Gulper shower pump
• Natures Head exhaust fans
• Plumbing parts
• Circuit breakers
• Fuses
• Switches
• Water maker parts and filters
• Batten receptacles
• Torlon ball bearings and mounting units for travelers
• Bosuns chair
• 12v portable emergency pump/hose combo for engine rooms, bilges, water transfer, etc.
• And many other parts

AB Ultralight Aluminum 9.5 dingy with locker, dingy chaps

• Mercury 9.9hp 4 stroke w/spare propeller

Disclaimer:

The Multihull Source, Inc. 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.