New homebuilt C Class catamaran designed and built by Keith MacKinven

Designed and built by Keith MacKinven is the new C Class catamaran Boadicea II.  Construction method featuring ply except on the round bilge which is made from strip cedar.   Main beam is aluminium rear is carbon.  It has a 13 metre carbon mast and on it's first sail achieved 13 knots in 10 knots of breeze being sailed conservatively with much more speed to come once sorted out.  It's great to see some homebuilt C Class catamarans being constructed.

Thanks to Atom Ant on the crew.org.nz forums for posting up about this interesting boat.  You can read the forum thread here:

http://crew.org.nz/forum/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=21144

And some photos of the new boat from the thread: