An electric catamaran, simple and sober, inspired by the Wharrams, ready to cross the oceans? The SailCo 38e makes multihull sailing accessible to the greatest number of people. Simple is beautiful!

At the origin of the SailCo 38e story, there is a man, or rather two, but let's start with the first, Roger Croome. Roger is a sailor, settled in Australia and whose family had ties with the Muirs of Tasmania, the dynasty founded by Jock Muir, multiple winner of the Sidney Hobbart and genius sailboat builder...

Then there is Wharram, James Wharram. Wharram was a free spirit of the 1960s, a self-taught sailor and sailboat builder. Wharram designed the Tiki and other Pahi, sturdy cruising catamarans inspired by Polynesian canoes and on which he sailed around the world several times. Wharram sold plans or finished sailboats to ordinary people who went sailing. In those days, you didn't have to pay seven figures or so to buy a boat of this type.

Wharrams were solid, serious, seaworthy, but also simple, uncluttered, inexpensive and easy to maintain.

With his SailCo 38e, it is this spirit that Roger has tried to revive...

SailCo 38e

The Sailco 38e is a 12 meters long and 6.80 meters wide, very light (3 tons light), dismountable, ketch rigged catamaran.

The boat is designed to be dismantled, the 7 assembly beams are fixed on the hulls by dyneema lashings. Thus disassembled, the whole boat fits in a 40' container, practical with a boat built in Indonesia, but also on a VL trailer to facilitate transport and dry wintering.

The SailCo38e is a catamaran built in monolithic epoxy fiberglass composite of high thickness (10 mm in the bottoms, 8 for the planks and decks and 6 mm for the roof).

The hulls have a cabin at the front and a shower room at the back, the galley on one side and the saloon on the other.

On the nacelle, which is open but covered by a bimini carrying 8 kWh of photovoltaic panels, Roger installs an exterior saloon and the steering position.

The boat is equipped with two 10 kWh 48 V electric motors and a 22 kWh kWh battery pack for propulsion.

The boat is delivered finished with a white gelcoat inside. On the equipment side, we find all the equipment usually present on the cruising ships, cold, pressurized water, hot water, cooking (electric for these two last elements), instruments, pilot...

The standing rigging is made of Dyneema as well as the halyards. Rigged as a ketch, whose astonishing combinations made possible by its two masts and two mainsails are nowadays forgotten, it mounts a furling genoa.

Another originality, the Wing sail luff pocket rig, mounts mainsails without boom or boom, whose sheaths enclose the mast. The luff turning around the mast gives the sail its best profile.

Sailco38e, ready to sail, 342.000 USD EXW Indonesia