I am currently in the process of buying my first sailing yacht, mainly because of “Sailing La Vagabonde.” The new Outremer 45 is beautiful, and has instantly become my dream boat. It would be fantastic for sailing the Great Lakes...
I know the La Vagabonde couple will really enjoy the boat. The company picked the perfect RU-vid couple to help advertise their boats. Best advertising they could buy. I look forward to their new adventures with this very cool boat. When I am ready to buy a sailboat your company would be the first one I would look at. You build quality boats.
I'm so happy for the two of you... I enjoyed skippering a Orana 44 for a week in the BVI... The Cats are definitely a beautiful way to live on a sailing vessel. You are setting a great example of a young couple, sailing the world... these are your rewards for a job well done.. Sail on! Capt'n Rick... Mississippi, USA
Fair enough. Although I can't really imagine anyone buying a brand new 42' Lagoon for a million bucks, when you can find a used Baltic 87 for 1.2 million. I mean come on, even if one is 20 years older, which one would you rather have?
I have been researching for my retirement floating RV..lol...I have been most interested in the Chris White Atlantics and havnt looked at Outremer. First thing I noticed was the narrow hulls, dagger boards, high deck and open just nets up front for no pounding...your boats scream blue water and I will be following La Vagabonde closley....I am twelve years out from retirement and want a Atlantic 47 but your 45 has really peeked my interest.
I've admired Outremer Hulls for years. I remember the first time Riley mentioned an Outremer as "this beautiful cat". They are a couple of very smart, beautiful kids.
I want one of these SO bad...I had a 36 foot mono hull, But since La Vagabonde got their Outremer.. I have Fallen in Love with these Vessels!!!! I NEED A Miracle
It doesn't look like there's any internal beams ... what gives the craft it's rigidity or strength? ... is it just the fibre glass? ... quite suprised me. thanks
Not really, it's just a bunch of fiberglass being laid on a mould. And I didn't count more than 15 people building it. Even if they made 10k a month, that's 150k of the cost to labour, and then say the materials cost, let's be generous, 100k, that's still only 250k for the cost to make this thing. If they wanted to turn a 100k profit, then they could sell it for 350k new, or 450k for a 200k profit. But they are selling them for over 600k! That's just too much for a 45'. I mean there's an 82' racing MacGregor for sale right now, in decent shape, for 90 grand! I mean how do you justify this over that?
yes and no: it seems that they work all together only during specific tasks, it looks like it's rather 6 people working at a time during many phases. And the cost of the assembly hall usage during 6 months was also forgotten.
This is very interesting. Do you not lay up as one and do you have any problems with seams breaking/leaking at the bottom of the keel? Never built a boat before and don't pretend to know much about it but done plenty of fibre-glassing in my time and would have thought you'd want the keels to be as homogeneous as possible. Great video :)
Hello Simon ! We can't lay up as one, because the front part of the hulls is too narrow to access, so there would be risks of uncomplete infusion. Plus difficulties to add the different crash boxes. but there is no risk here with many layers to join the hulls, and mostly because all bulkheads which joins the hulls are all fully laminated on it.
I started watching La Vagabonde because I'm planning on purchasing a cat and traveling the world and was interested in learning about some of the issues I would be encountering and how to deal with them. I had honestly ruled out Outremer because I didn't really see much advantage in the dagger boards for the expense. I've also not encountered any channels with the vessel having them and I've heard that they get clogged with marine growth which makes them fixed keels anyway. Because of this I'm going to be keeping a tight eye on this and see if I should reevaluate my choice.
As there are millions of us world wide, I'd be surprised if I was the only one following them and commenting on their videos. Off the top of my head I'd say that the person directly below me and possibly one of those replying to him can easily afford one. If you teach yourself a more valuable skill you could join us.
Beautiful boat. SLV brought me here. I used to think that other than Tag and Catana, all the other Cats were CRAP, big fat, overweight, TUBS of crap.... Outrider cats look wonderful, definately as good (maybe better?) than a Catana. Watching closely to see this boat in action.
If Riley and Elayna are smart they will be auctioning that one off. Could get them about 100 thousand euro for only the history of the boat. Very smart move from Outremer btw to post the video of the cat build now that they draw in such massive attention with this sponsor deal. Choice of music is waaay better then the launch video. Should work on the overlay between shots and the color-scheme of the camera's used. Seems they are not in perfect white balance. If those are professional camera's, you can reset them if they are focused on a pure white screen. And quite frankly, someone doing some explaining/ narrating could make this go into the millions of views once it gets more traction. Perhaps combine the two (time lapse with launch) with a bit of history of the couple, explanation of the sponsor deal and use narration of Elayna might make a big score in the yachting world. So many great opportunities. Well done so far!
I'm not a sailing guy, but I swear I will buy an Outremer one day. Funnily enough, I think my friends one is an Outremer. I even forgive your absurdly French music choices and beating Scotland at rugby today.
