Is This the PERFECT BLUEWATER Cruising Catamaran [Full Tour] Learning the Lines

What's up everybody we just got back from Fort Lauderdale and boy do we have an awesome catamaran to show you. We also wanted to briefly mention that we've noticed we have a lot more viewers but not necessarily a lot more subscribers so if you haven't already go ahead and hit that subscribe button it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys subscribing to the channel helps us a lot and let's get to the tour. Hi this is Jim Ross, yacht broker with Just Catamarans. I want to introduce a boat we have for sale. It's a 2010 St. Francis 50 footer. She's one of the most capable blue water sailing catamarans on the market today. So I hope you enjoy the tour. All right Randy first thoughts. Oh it's a massive ship. It's beautiful. So far from what we've seen I've taken a peek inside the salon. The cockpit is very nice but we'll show you those things in a second. We're going to get started on the deck. All right so moving forward I'm noticing very wide side deck so easy movement. I also notice that this hard bimini has handrails along it which is really good for moving along a deck. I see jack lines already. I've seen a lot of safety features that I'm going to try to point out. Again handrails extending on the cabin top. You know this is something we used to point out all the time and I just realized we haven't been pointing out. It has exterior chain plates so it's easy to inspect. Large side decks also allow you to have large hatches if you ever need to get out of those but also excellent ventilation. I'm seeing just on this side deck there's four here so definitely a lot of ventilation there because again these large side decks you have room to store things that are fun like your kayaks or your stand-up paddle boards and things like that which is a great feature to have more room is always nice. Yeah and that's not in the way at all right there. I was curious about this front hatch if this would be to a bow locker or if it would go inside the cabin and it looks like it goes inside the cabin. I'm going to show you what's in there later it's kind of cool. You do have bow seats up here like the dolphin seats. I also noticed there's seats in the back as well along the side deck. Up front you have two large trampolines and a really neat feature here this actually folds down into the water and becomes a ladder. Yeah so it folds down right there so you have another ladder on the bow so we have an electric furler for the genoa right there. It looks like this is a secondary bow roller because the actual anchor is down there. It also looks like there is a pop out little pole right there for a spinnaker. Looking aft gonna give you an idea of what this very large foredeck looks like. So on this side this is a bow locker. I don't know if you can kind of see through it. Looks like there is some some toys down there maybe a dive compressor or something but it's it's locked so i think we can get to it from the inside so we'll show you that in a little bit too. While we're up here i'm just going to point out there is a fill for diesel and i noticed while i was walking on the exterior of the boat the water fill and the waste out is actually like on the side of the hull which i thought was interesting. More jack lines already rigged up. There must be a lot of diesel tanks on here because that's a diesel fill and this is a diesel fill and this is a diesel fill. Yeah so i wonder how many tanks there are. Multiple tanks probably we have multiple diesels i guarantee you there's two diesels on a generator on this boat. All right and then we've got some lockers here. Hard to tell how big it is. Yeah full sail locker there it looks pretty big. Chain locker in the middle. So just forward of the chain locker there is also a interstay for a staysail. I always like that feature on any cruising boat. We've got another sail locker up here packed to the brim with stuff. All right above the cabin you can obviously access pretty easily. We've got an in boom furler which is very nice and then all the line angles look like they're they're not very sharp so it'll look like they go back to the cockpit which is great. Looks like there's lots of electronics up there. We got a radar probably some type of satellite some lights looks like there's some some loud speakers but yeah lots of stuff up there. Just getting a better view of the boom and everything for you guys. Looks like there's more horns or speakers right there. Got all kinds of just like internet different instruments i mean i don't even know what all these instruments are so going up onto the coach roof. A little detail that i always appreciate on the top here we have rub rails for your lines to help prevent chafing which i think is a great idea. Yeah the maverick does that too. And then we have bucket loads of solar. Yeah tons of solar. How much would you estimate? Don't quote me on this but i would say maybe one and a half kilowatts. All right i'm noticing two of these big windows for the cockpit area actually open which would be really nice on like hot days to like let the breeze in while you're in the cockpit and open up that area a little bit that's really nice because these are big. Definitely. Let's go aft and check out that cockpit. Absolutely. Another kayak on the port side. And the last one we had toured had like two side decks so this one actually does two because you can do the big one on this one's a lot better than our last boat. These are the little seats i was talking about in the aft there's one on each side then obviously you have your sugar scoops but would we like to do the cockpit or the sugar scoops first? Let's do sugar scoops and then the cockpit. So this is actually a little tricky i will mention that because there's a there's a port here that has a blinder that you don't step on but you've got a nice little handle here and you just kind of swing over to this step over here. This transition is definitely not the most elegant. I did notice this earlier i thought this was cool how deep these go oh it's hard to see on this side maybe we'll show the other side. These lockers are very deep they actually they look like they fill the whole length right there so you can store long things. We've got your dinghy back here it's actually sitting on the deck right now there's like a teak deck extension i don't know if it's considered an extension it's probably part of the original boat but it's sitting up there the davits do come out more so that they're over the water instead of over the deck but it allows you to easily put your boat up on deck out of the way which is nice. We've got a large sugar scoop pretty big you can see it extends pretty far aft and you can easily get on and off the dinghy from them. You've got two mechanical compartments one on each side looks like that might be a generator or something or maybe part of the diesel on this side and then going down in you've got more technical storage and just technical area. Walking from the port side to the starboard side you've got this little compartment right here looks like we've got dive tanks so i'm guessing that was a dive compressor i saw earlier lines this is that really deep compartment here you guys can see that it was really deep yeah perfect place for long things like brushes i'm on a starboard sugar scoop and we've got the other technical compartment right here it looks like you got your water maker access to other systems so you enter the cockpit mid ships right here i'm looking forward you've got randy you have your captain's area to starboard side with some additional seating here's your helm station and then on the port side you have more of like a sitting eating area we've got all the lines coming back on big winches winches there and then let's look at the helm station so i would consider this a fully loaded helm station you've got dual bng big displays bng electronics wind instruments there's your emr diesel engines right there engine panels you've got more lines and then most importantly in my mind really really good visibility and really good protection underneath this coach roof what do you think i like that it's a very good setup and as a short person i would note the adjustable leg thing under you oh okay let me look at that as you're sitting up here at the helm station you've got these adjustable places to put your feet so it's a very comfortable situation right there and it looks like it's big enough for two people i noticed the little things i can't help we also have the life raft below the captain's chair eperb easily accessible as well as a man overboard rescue system a throwable they really went top notch with their safety equipment which is great because this is an ocean crossing vessel and if you're planning on crossing oceans you want to emphasize safety for sure there's even i noticed it looks like something can be added here to keep people in the cockpit which is a good feature i think as well got a big locker right there kind of looks like a nice chest too we've got more lockers right here randy's opening up the other locker wow that's big yeah yeah just storage for days and then the fisherman in me really likes these two storage compartments down on the cockpit sole because they look like they would be perfect as fish boxes i don't know if they're insulated or not but throw a bunch of ice in here throw some fish in there that is a good good fish box the same on both sides wet storage it looks like it has a drain which is nice all right randy you ready to go inside yes if you're jordan beware there's a step down i am just gonna let this saloon speak for itself for a few moments here my god let's start with the galley uh okay it starts kind of right as soon as you enter so you have a refrigerator here and an ice maker there jordan already joked that the ice maker is specifically for the fishbowl yeah so once you make ice it goes right in the fish box there is a little awkward step up i'm sure there's probably a reason for it into the galley but just to be aware of if you're in here looks like there's tons of storage something that i do appreciate about how they did the storage in this boat is that even though you have upper cabinets they worked those in and still allowed you a window here which seems silly but when you're cooking and things it's nice to be able to see what's going on in the cockpit yeah definitely so you've got your uh range and oven it looks like this is a dishwasher yes yeah that's a dishwasher dishwasher a dual-sided sink microwave tons of storage everywhere it looks like you've got trash here so it's probably just an empty or trash can um that's pretty much it for the galley but i really like the shape it's super secure i mean i know you're not really unless you're going this way it's not necessary but it's always nice to have handholds in a boat in my opinion definitely and you guys are going to probably notice or you might have already noticed the owners definitely liked bamboo it seems like pretty much all of the wood finishing is is bamboo yes so forward of the galley you have a dual person nav station now i know a lot of people say you don't need a nav station jordan and i actually really tend to like them this nav station is fully equipped you've got all of your access to your electrical it looks like you have your own gps over here and engine controls you can monitor your tanks you can monitor everything about the boat from this station even the air conditioning can be controlled here i just want to emphasize this nav station this forward facing nav station which we really like is pretty much perfect so you can see forward you can monitor everything about the boat right here while you're on passage you can monitor your sails from right there i mean this is where i feel like you're going to spend 90% of your watch and also two people can sit here and this doubles as essentially an office for the boat you know and something i always think about when people say like you're most likely not going to use your nav station is i'm sure most of you watch sailing le vagabond or a good portion of you watch sailing le vagabond and riley is constantly at the nav station i feel like we see him there all the time especially on passage absolutely so i feel like if you are actually like an ocean going vessel you're going to use it looking to starboard over here we've got just a massive settee table i can pretty much guarantee you that table goes all the way down and becomes a berth there too we've got a very large entertainment center for a boat right here and then let's see what this is right here oh and a bar place to keep your adult beverages and then i saw this earlier this is the access to the helm station so very very good access to all of these systems that are behind the helm station so randy finally figured out you just pull it up it was pretty simple how to lift the shade so there you go there's your visibility and then while you're at the nav station this is what you can see so pretty much perfect textbook exactly what we want in our future nav station just in a smaller package another thing i noticed while i was in here is there's a motion sensor there so this boat is rigged with a security system randy's just playing with stuff it's a good good canned food storage if you need it yeah there's another one on the side too let's go to port first good handrails again coming down you've got two options actually you've got another refrigerator here and it looks like basically food i would say food storage area i'm guessing this is going to be a cooler yep freezer or fridge you think probably a freezer this is kind of behind the nav station the nav station so there are some electrical kind of components in here it looks like the compressor for the ac and then this is just general storage more storage down there electrical ac compressor it looks like more storage up there okay this is like the back of the computer moving forward you have a doorway if you would like some privacy this is a berth it's a very nice size berth probably a queen that looks like a queen to me yeah it's very luxurious too with that it has a headboard yeah very a lot of headroom a fold down television television steps up yeah these are nice and then you've got like a little seat there so there's clothes storage and more storage over here i'm sitting in that little seat very cool i'm gonna go even farther forward and we've got the head full head and then a separate separate shower very nice stand and then this is really cool the escape hatch is in the shower this is access to the bow locker that was locked and that is that does look like a dive compressor so nice big bow locker with a dive compressor in it couldn't be any more perfect looking apt what do you think granny this is a very nice layout um a lot of times the heads the toilet or the head like faces the door and then you kind of have to awkwardly get around it but this is a good layout for the head for sure yeah let's go act looks like again you've got access to the bilge areas along the way that's a lot deeper of a bilge than i would have expected more just general storage little drawers and things like that here this is a interesting storage area different kind of corner unit yeah i mean they they utilized every last square inch of this boat this i imagine is a head yes so you've got a full head with a stand-up shower in there as well so this is the full head with the separate shower there's the head so two heads in this hall already and two showers i feel like it's going to sound like we're obsessed with storage because we keep pointing out but it's literally everywhere so this is another queen or double this is going to be another queen size queen size there's plenty of storage along the side of the berth i didn't reach over to look into it it looks like there's some even built in on this side of the berth all all along and then you've got storage here we're gonna have to stop opening up all these storage compartments because this video is going to be two hours long i know this one is like huge though look at this you can turn that way too all right enough with the storage the engine is going to be in each hall underneath the beds and there we go there's access to that so very good engine access you can definitely get down in there you've got two yanmar diesels in this boat very nice can i point out how thick the soundproofing is too very thick let's check out that other hall we've got a whole nother hole a whole other hole uh the starboard side back across the salon got a ways to walk wow at who you have a berth right now it looks like they're using it to store all of like the cushions from the cockpit area you obviously have engine access below here as well for your starboard side engine oh it looks like you might have access here too yeah tons of storage yet again let's go ahead and look at your oh this is a standalone shower standalone shower or wet storage which is perfect those falleys i know i just said i'm done opening cabinets and i opened a cabinet so there's so many cabinets everywhere it's ridiculous how many cabinets let's go forward now this is like a storage room so i think jordan's uh let's stop opening i think we can i think we can leave these ones closed okay i think they get it there's a lot of storage guys so you have another berth here that's a queen size again so this is just like the queen on the other side there are some similarities between the sides they're not exactly mirrored but i wouldn't call this a owner's side necessarily it's an interesting layout forward of you is a head with some interesting features and i did say so we've got full head here and then forward of that got a tub big tub stand up shower this is very much like the maverick that we toured that i really liked that had a tub in it and then got access to the bow locker which there is a washer dryer in that so this boat is fully loaded all right guys i'm going to do the full continuous below decks walk through and i'm starting in the starboard side bow portion of the tub so this is the separate shower slash tub and turning aft we've got a massive storage area right there we've got randy queen size berth right there looking aft we've got more storage i mean i don't know how many times we can say how much storage this boat has but it has a lot of storage and that is an understatement so right here there is a standalone shower and aft of all that is another queen size berth so looking forward we have randy again turning to port going up over the bridge deck into the salon we've got the galley looking forward got the perfect nap station starboard of that is the salon table randy again who's following me through the boat we've got the kind of entertainment center over here and looking back to port going down into the porthole we're gonna go aft first we've got your queen size berth again storage literally everywhere the other full head is right here we've got the overflow kitchen area right here float storage queen size berth and then finally forward of all that we have the full head and separate shower and i'm sorry but if you were staying in this hall you don't get a tub so what do you think about this one right this is a beautiful boat well thought out it has a ton of safety equipment which is always good to see because i feel like this is a very blue water capable boat and it's ready to go definitely i mean it's pretty much perfect for blue water cruising i mean it is absolutely an amazing boat there is nothing that it needs at all it has everything and there's really nothing wrong with it it's it's pretty crazy because like you rarely ever see a boat where you're just like damn i feel like there was so much to see too this is probably one of our longer videos just because there was so much like you said if there was storage everywhere there was equipment everywhere instruments everywhere it is like fully decked out you really don't need anything yeah positives everything yeah everything's a positive negatives it's probably too big yeah it's that that's a huge boat yeah i mean i would say it would be great for like co-ownership with another couple or even like if you're real friendly like four couples could live in that boat easily so just something to consider if you're looking for like a shared ownership situation we obviously really liked it there really is nothing wrong with the boat the fact that we think it's too big is kind of our own opinion so you know that's you know however big a boat should be it really is an opinion of the person that owns that boat or if you have a large family a large crew i mean you need something like that exactly so i mean for us this boat is too big but for someone else it might not be and obviously for the previous owner they loved it and they they cared for it and it was awesome so speaking of the previous owner i do want to mention that you know there's no way for us to cover everything on this boat in a video for you guys on here i mean there's just so much so the previous owner paul he went out and made his own video about the boat it's like 45 minutes long but it's extremely detailed so if you want more information on this boat just all of the systems everything from bow to stern the link for paul's video is going to be in the description below also the contact information for the broker at just catamarans will be in the description below as well as the current asking price as always guys if you enjoyed this video make sure you leave a like and a comment down below if you haven't already hit that subscribe button to follow along with our journey and the notification bell if you want to know each and every time we upload a video see you guys bye i've got it but i learned my lesson come sit here with me by the fire and let it go for a little while