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MotorCat MC 30 and dinghy (2006 10' Zodiac RIB and 15hp Yamaha)
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Builder: Bond Yachts
LOA: 30' Beam: 9'5" Draft: 19" Displacement: 4850lbs Headroom: 6'6"
Engines: Suzuki Fuel injected 4 Strokes Horse Power: 50hp Speed: 20 Hours: ~560
Water: 70gal/3 Tanks Fuel: 70gal/2 Tanks
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Note I bought this boat specifically for this 8 month trip to the Bahamas. I've owned her for about a year and have upgraded the boat for the trip and cruising in general. She has been maintained meticulously. In this past year I've put approximately $135,000 and hundreds of hours of labor in her but, as I've mentioned elsewhere on my Web page, I always sell my boats when I come back from my cruises to the Bahamas. The reason for this is that my work takes me all over the US, and I'm never in NC long enough to use or maintain a boat. I strongly believe that boats don't do well at all sitting around unattended and unused and, therefore, I would rather give them a good home (Yeah, I'm that anal about my boats.) I've always priced my boats 10% under what I have in them (I certainly don't include any of the hundreds of hours of my time for the updates, research and installations) as the cost of my use of the boat. I've done that here as well. I really hate to see this boat go because she really has been the perfect boat for the East coast and Bahamas: economical, comfortable, livable, shallow draft, trailerable and unsinkable (I haven't tried out this last feature yet...). What more can one ask for? The folks at Bond Yachts do some of the nicest fiberglass molding that I've ever seen and I've owned my share of high quality yachts. This is a very well constructed boat and shows as if new.
The new and much improved foredeck and hardware have arrived from Bond Yachts and have been installed. This will update the boat to current standards. She is in great shape and will make someone VERY happy.
Accommodations This vessel is very large and livable for it's size. There are two quarter berths aft, followed to the starboard of the entryway by a dining table with large enclosed shelves and a hanging locker beneath. Forward you have a wide, not quite queen sized, bed with 6 large storage lockers beneath. To port from the entry, you step down to 6'6" headroom in the galley with an enclosed head/shower forward. The 3 hatches and 3 opening ports funnel a tremendous amount of air through the boat and, combined with the foam coring, keep the interior very comfortable on hot sunny days. Screens keep the bugs out and Oceanair hatch shades keep the interior cool when the hatches are closed. I have all the literature and manuals for every piece of equipment installed in a large 3 ring folder as well as the owners manual and engine manuals.
Galley The galley is well laid out with everything in a logical location. The Origo alcohol stove, when tested by Practical Sailor, was only some forty seconds slower in bringing water to a boil than was the propane stove. In addition, alcohol is definitely the safer fuel. On my trip I went through approximately 1.2 gallon of alcohol per month and I cooked all of the time. The sink provides both hot and cold pressure water from 3 separate tanks holding a little over 70 gallons of fresh water. The refrigerator is large for this size of boat, and it kept my frozen foods frozen without also freezing my refrigerated foods. All power for the refrigeration/freezer, lights, stereo etc. was supplied by the solar panels as I only went into marinas and plugged in while traveling down the East coast of the US.
Electronics The boat has a Clarion 6 disc CD changer and stereo, Icom IC-M2A waterproof handheld VHF mounted and held in place by it's charging stand, Icom IC-M402 VHF inside with a remote speaker and Commandmic at the helm, Garmin 2010C color 10" screen chartplotter with fishfinder and electronic charts from the Chesapeake Bay through the Southern Bahamas, a separate Hummingbird digital depth sounder for extreme shallows, external 8db gain WIFI antenna attached to a 2 way, 1 Watt WIFI amplifier for gaining distant internet access.
Electrical This boat is equipped with both 12volt and 110volt electrical systems, a 50', 30 Amp shore power cord, 4 - 6V golf cart batteries and 1 - 12V starting battery, Battery combiner by Blue Seas, 20 Amp smart battery charger, 2-130 Watt Kyocera solar panels regulated by a Solar Boost 2000e MPPT solar charge controller that was rated best in it's class by Practical Sailor. (NOTE - if you want to remove the solar panels while not cruising, it only takes about a 1/2 hour to remove them. If you don't want them at all I'll lower the price of the boat by their and the regulator's total original cost of ~ $1,500). Hot and cold pressure water. Mermaid reverse cycle central air conditioning/heat. This is a bomb proof electrical system. I was never lacking for electricity to run the fridge, lights, stereo, electronics etc. even when it was cloudy for a couple of days.
Deck Bimini top with Isenglas panels that totally encloses the cockpit, a snap-on winter cockpit and windshield cover, a 9" Lewmar Hatch installed in head, 2 very large hatches into the main living area, 3 opening ports, Snap-down cockpit carpeting, a Magma "Newport" propane grill with a 6lb refillable aluminum tank, a cockpit/swim platform shower next to the swim platform ladder, a LED anchor light with an auto on/off light sensor, a Lewmar Profish 700 freefall anchor windlass with an oversized 15lb aluminum Spade anchor (the Spade has received rave reviews and deserves them. I've had Spade anchors on several of my cruising boats and have yet to drag during bad weather) attached to 75' 1/4" high test chain and 200' 1/2 rode, an 11lb Fortress stern anchor attached to 6' vinyl coated chain and 200' 1/2" rode, 2 large 10" dia. black fenders, 2 small 4" dia. black fenders, black 1/2" dock lines. A new 2007 foredeck (Beautiful!) with upgraded hardware (Bond Yachts made a foredeck/hardware improvement to their boats sometime in 2003, just a couple months after this boat was built), 2007 10' CR4 Zodiac medium-V RIB (that easily folds into it's bag and fits on deck) with 2006 15hp 2-stroke Yamaha, a new 2006 dual axle Float-On trailer (for the MC 30 not the RIB) with disc brakes that has less than 300 miles use. The wheels on the trailer are attached with McGuard wheel locks. US Coast Guard required flares, extinguishers, life vests etc. The boat bottom was "painted" with several coats of Epoxy mixed with powdered copper. This turned out to make a better barrier coat than it did anti-fouling. I ended up lightly sanding that and applying 3 coats of Petite Ultima SR multi season ablative paint. It looks just as good now as when I applied it a year ago. No barnacles, grass etc. Just flat black!
Mechanical The engines are 50hp fuel injected four stroke Suzuki's. These are very economical and burn way less comparable 2strokes as well as being VERY reliable and quiet. On my 7 month round trip, NC to the Bahamas and back, I covered well over 4000mi and burned about 1,238 gal in 432 engine hours. The majority of that at a speed between 14 and 18. That comes out to 2.87gal/hr total for the 2 engines. After the first 100 hours of break in using Suzuki 15w40, I have run only Amsoil pure synthetic 10w40 Marine Four Stroke Oil and Amsoil pure synthetic Marine Gear Lube as well as marine synthetic grease at all fittings. The engine power heads were sprayed with heavy duty CorrosionX before they ever saw any salt water and look new. Fuel and maintenance logs as well as repair and owners manuals come with the boat. There are 4 - four blade props for high displacement cruising and 2 - three blade props for lighter displacement faster speed cruising. The props are held on by McGuard prop locks. Both high density polyethylene fuel tanks were removed inspected and cleaned last fall before I took this trip. The fuel flows through external canister fuel filter/water separators prior to reaching the engines. Both engines have hydrofoils attached for added lift. Each hull has 2 bilge pumps (total of 4), all are automatic but 2 (one in each hull) can also be activated manually. Spare parts. Since getting back to NC the engines have been cleaned, all fluids changed as well as plugs and resprayed with heavy duty CorrosionX. Only the plastic engine covers look bad and that is on purpose to discourage would be thieves.
If you'd like to get more tech data on the boat, then click to go to my first page, Beaufort, where I describe a few of the many upgrades that I made to the boat and include more boat pictures. Another source of info on this boat is the tech page at Bond Yachts, the builder of the Motorcat 30. Unlike so many boat owners that "improve" their boats, I follow ABYC (American Boat and Yacht Council) guidelines and have years of experience in the field and it shows. This vessel will pass the most rigorous survey easily.
If you have any questions or comments at all please feel free to contact me. Frank
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