Beachcat Upgrade: Grainger’s Barefoot 35
This is what all catsailors must have for a good starter family cruisnig cat, a 35 boot coastal cruising cat.
I’ve contacted Tony Grainger some years ago for a local project with his designs, but it didn´t came along with the client. Now my partner/cousin and key piece on the Racecat project, Nadal Solari, is building a new boatyard and maybe we’ll relaunch the project in the future, as you may guess by now, catsailing is catching up in Argentina, and we are slowly seing a transition to change the entire log fleet of monos, if not for true conversion they will need a cat by nature law, as the local Rio de la Plata conditions are getting quite shallow.
Grainger Designs has the most stylish sport cruising cats, he also has a full pre cut cad structural assembly method for building yours with any experienced boatyard if you´re not located in Australia, check his site for more at www.graingerdesigns.com.au
