I CAN’T CHANGE THE DIRECTION OF THE WIND, BUT I CAN ADJUST MY SAILS TO ALWAYS REACH MY DESTINATION
JIMMY DEAN
About Double Trouble
‘Double Trouble’ is a 2014 Fontaine Pajot ‘Lipari 41 Evolution’ catamaran. We took ownership of her in December 2016.
- Year Built -2014
- Length and beam – 11.93 metres long with beam of 6.75m.
- Weight – around 10 tonnes fully laden
- Draft -1.3m
- Fresh Water tanks – 530 litres
- Diesel -300 litres
- Rig – Fractional rig with a square top main and genoa
- Additional sails – 125m2 Parasailor and a small storm sail
- Engines – 2 Volvo D130 sail drive engines
- Solar – 4 x 360 watt Sunpower X22 solar panels
- Batteries – 750 amp hour house battery bank ( Gel )
- Watermaker – ‘Rainman’. This is a portable 240 volt unit that makes 120 litres/hour
- Generator – Portable Honda Eu20 2KVA generator
- Dinghy – ‘Dave’ is a ‘Highfield’ 290 Ultralight.
- Outboard – ‘Mercury’ 9.9hp, 4 Stroke
- Dive Compressor – ‘Coltri’ portable MCH6 – Petrol powered