C Cat 37 Catamaran Review: Yachts, wine, ideas and art. A very civilized way to spend 30 min.

C-Cat 37 Catamaran Review
• Last Weeks Yard: Portofino Marine Services: VV4W+7W8 - Ghantout - Al Jarf - Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates
• C- Catamarans Yard: Viale Traiano, 27, 00054 Fiumicino RM, Italy
• Wine: Monte Antico, Supremus Toscana 2016 . Via Romolo Gessi, 58 – 20146 Milano, Italy

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Welcome back to Naval Gazing at Camp David.

This week’s guest yacht was the first offering from the performance yard on the banks of the Tiber outside Rome.

The C-Cat 37!

For this weeks wine pairing, we head further north into Tuscany and the wineries of Monte Antico.

Our wine pairing this week id Monte Antico, Supremus Toscana 2016

75% Sangiovese
15% Merlot
10% Cabernet Sauvignon

Monte Antico, which means “ancient mountain,” is Neil and Maria Empson’s wholehearted tribute to Tuscany. Their forty years of passion and experience led them to create their own label along with their good friend Franco Bernabei, a master in Italian winemaking. Together, they have styled the quintessential Tuscan grape Sangiovese, highlighting all it has to offer and complementing it with just enough Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon to bring it all together.

The wine is fermented in stainless steel tanks at 77 °F (25 °C), followed by maceration on the skins for 15-20 days and malolactic fermentation for 7 days. Once the wine is blended, it aged 14 months in barrique – principally Allier oak. 70% of the barrique are new. Supremus ages 6 months in bottle before release.

Barriques are the barrels traditionally used in Bordeaux, holding 225 litres. The wood for Bordeaux comes from Allier forests in the Auvergne. (The required characteristic of Allier oak was of course that it would make good ships to kill the British, not it's smell). Barriques are very much smaller than the barrels used in producing Barolo and Barbaresco; generally twenty times smaller. And while these bigger barrels are treated, and introduced carefully to fine wine maturing to ensure that no element of the wood gets into the wine, the barrique is often used new with the deliberate intention of adding wood substances to the wine. The smaller barrel presents a greater surface to a given quantity of wine so all effects take place more quickly.

Innovation Corner

• C-Cat 37 Web page: https://www.leopardcatamarans.com/cat...

• Electric downwind sail furler:

https://www.facnor.com/code-sail-furl....    • Facnor_FXe furler = one min one product  . https://www.facnor.com/wp-content/upl....

https://www.profurl.com/en/motorized-...

• Electric Code sail furler, compact, heigth close to the manually-operated endless line drum for an easy switch to motorization
• Quick furling (45s for a 140m2 Code sail) and easy (radio controlled) Make flying sails easy to handle in solo or in small sized crew.
• Contained power consumption : 20-25 Ah under load
• Complete kit including relay box, circuit breaker, wire, deck plugging, protection cover and storage bag
• Option : wired or radio-remote controller


• Flying sails: asymmetrical spinnaker up to 400 m²
• Top down furling
• Minimal noise and low power consumption
• Ability to convert a manual flying sail furler into a motorized one

Wine: http://monteantico.com/supremus/
Sail away C-Cat 37 ~ $444,450 USD

Art Stop:
The Street Enters the House by Umberto Boccioni (1912). Umberto Bachonee.