Catamaran sailing yacht CATAMARIS® EXPLORER 64 WHEELCHAIR

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A handicapped wheelchair-bound owner would like to be able to sail the ship autonomously by himself or go on cruises with employed, non-disabled crew or go on voyages with his non-disabled partner as skipper. Catamaris® has designed an ideal, strong and wheelchair friendly Explorer Catamaran for this purpose for worldwide blue water cruising and circumnavigation. The hulls, deck, deckhouse and the entire structure are made of certified aluminium. Safe, strong, reliable and robust! Built in our shipyard in Holland. The result is a stable, homogeneous and torsion-resistant structure without the annoying creaking noises that can occur with GRP constructions or mixed forms - such as hulls made of aluminium, deck and superstructure made of GRP - in rough seas. Catamaris® is committed to environmental friendliness and sustainability. Numerous building components can be recycled and reused in an environmentally friendly way, see below. DESCRIPTION All configurations have in common that wheelchair users have unrestricted access to the cabin deck, saloon deck and cockpit inside and outside, as well as to the flybridge, and can get on and off the dinghy with the wheelchair, as well as into the dinghy at anchor. The main feature here is to provide the wheelchair user with unrestricted access on and off board as well as transfer from deck to deck at all times by suitable means. CATAMARIS® uses specially designed innovative wheelchair accessible stairs for vertical movements in the ship, which include a lift platform in the system that can be activated at the push of a button when needed. When not in use, only the stairs are visible.