Too Wild is a Advantage 44 Catamaran desigend by Shuttleworth and built in Germany by Bader Catamarans 1998. Too Wild is a really fast 44ft catamaran with center daggerbord. With 8,5 meters width it is 1m wider than my old boat and with 9 tons only half the weight. The hull is made of kevlar / sandwich and I added carbon interieur. After a time consuming and expansive refit between Dezember and April (new engines, new windows, new sails, new saloon interieur and new non skid painting and other paint jobs inside and outside, replacement of electronics and rudders) we had our first testsail May and June 2022 in the Ionian sea in Greece. I love to sail that boat. It is the fastest of the 4 catamarans I owned so far.
The boat has 3 comfortable double cabins with 1,6m * 2m beds and one big bathroom in the stb front. The interieur was built new in March and April and out of carbon sandwhich. The kitchen was moved from the hull into the saloon. Now there is a spacious couch and a table with setee in the saloon.
Katamaran Advantage 44, built 1998, N-34447 „Too Wild“, Flag Austria
Production Method: Vinylester / Vacuum Infusion
Length: 14,0 m
Weight: 8500 kg
Engines: 2×55 PS Diesel
Mast Height: 18,00 m
Spi: 100 m2
Gennaker heavy: 110 m2
Wild Too Outside:
The new sandwich cockpit roof offers good sun protection. In good weather we can eat outside at the new spacious cockpit table. If you want to hang out in the sun the front area is a good place for that. The large plattform at the stern is perfect for pumping up a kite or get ready for freediving.
TOO WILD inside, Hulls & saloon
The boat has 3 comfortable double cabins with 1,6m * 2m beds and one big bathroom in the stb front. The interieur was built new in March and April and out of carbon sandwhich. The kitchen was moved from the hull into the saloon. Now there is a spacious couch and a table with setee in the saloon. We try to keep the number of guests to 6 persons max. I cannot promise you your own cabin but I do put ladies and couples together in a double if possible You can have your own double bunk if you pay the double costshare of course. All cabins have windows and doors.
TOO WILD refit – Dec 2021 to April 2022
The boat needed a lot of love and investments, beeing on the hard for more than 4 years. It also has been abused in the past or never really finished (rudders been cut, no repair- and maintainance jobs done for a long time) It found a good new owner by me already investing 30k E and more than 1000hrs work. Jobs I did 2021 / 2022 were:
- new carbon fibre saloon interieur built of carbon / sandwhich and laminated solid to the boat – adding more strength. (There was IKEA furniture in it before!)
- Repair of the broken floor bords in the hull and new EVA floor inside.
- Repair & maintainance of both engines
- integrating the kitchen from the hull into the saloon furniture
- Replacement of the mainsail and adopting the cockpit roof level to the original sailplan
- Sanding, repairing and repainting the deck and the exterieur of the hull
- Installation of new saloon windows and suncovers (the old ones have cracked and partly been laminated closed with plywood!)
- Extension and strengthening of the rudders with carbonfiber sandwich and installing skegs for rudder- and saildrive protection.
- carbonfibre storage shelfs in the hulls and kitchen
- new „walk on“ sandwich cockpit roof and cockpit table and bench
- Replacement of batteries and more solar panels on the new cockpit roof
- renewal of instruments
Coming jobs for 2023
- improvement of the daggerbord housing
- Coppercoat antifouling after smaller hull repairjobs
- partly renewal of deck hardware