Duet Arrow 1360 Schionning

Duet is a based on a Jeff Schionning 1360 Arrow Design (Australian Catamaran Designer who designed the GForce and Arrow boats) and was customized by Northstar Yachts and Shipwrights...... North Star A-46, they are a small boutique pro builder here in Cape Town (the people involved have built Gunboats and Chris Whites). She is built like those boats out of Corecell and Epoxy infusion with lots of carbon fibre in the important places. She will be very light for a 46' cat (6.8 Kg) but still handle a payload of 2500 Lbs. She has a lot of performance options including a full carbon mast, boom, forebeam, daggerboards, rudders, etc. Carbon Vectra fiber racing sails by North Sails. She is hybrid/electric and powered by dual OceanVolt electric shaft drive motors capable of regeneration power of 5 K watts when sailing at 10 knots. She is quite capable of 20 knots when reaching. She also has 6 high output solar panels and a 16 K watt backup generator for when the 10 Lithium Ion Super B batteries get low. With a large fuel tank, she will be capable of 800-1,000 nautical mile range with the generator, but with sun and regeneration, she could conceivably be self-powering. She has a 14.5 to 1 hull length to width ratio (most product cats in her size are 10 to 1 or less) so very narrow hulls that are easily driven, but we have managed to make the interior quite liveable and roomy. 3 staterooms - two over the bridge deck and one in the aft Port side. Canting steering wheels allow her to be both 'outside and inside' steering options.