Gunboat 62, wicked fast too

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How about a 62’ sailing cat with an interior like a sleek apartment and the performance of a carbon racer? Sailing Anarchy has the story here, including a larger version of the picture above, in which you can better see all the Raymarine electronics. I’ll bet those big displays are E-120s, which have XVGA out ports, and thus that 42” LCD TV may be be set up to repeat one of the E screens. I’ve seen a Gunboat 42’ in a stiff breeze on Chesapeake Bay and she was flying. Check out the video at the company site.



Ben Ellison

Ben Ellison

Panbo editor, publisher & chief bottlewasher from 4/2005 until 8/2018, and now pleased to have Ben Stein as a very able publisher, webmaster, and editing colleague. Please don't regard him as an "expert"; he's getting quite old and thinks that "fadiddling fumble-putz" is a more accurate description.

3 Responses

  1. Another good site to look at if you want to see the Gunboat 62 in action is Safaricharter.com, where they have a great video of Safari, a Gunboat 62 cat, blowing the doors off of a Reichel Pugh 80.

  2. Anonymous says:

    Yes very impressive. Although you would think they would fix the jib leach flutter. I give the nod to the RP80 on a W/L course.

  3. Terry says:

    So where does the helm sit? The sofa seat back look a bit uncomfortable!

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