Nacra Australasia

The Nacra F17 is the true modern single hander, there are big advantages to this 17, most single handers leave you trailing behind the bigger boats, not the Nacra F17.

The speed and power are unprecedented for a catamaran of her size. The high pointing dagger boards enable you to sail high above the others on the windward leg.

Tacking is easy as the F17 has fairly flat bottoms to the hulls meaning that she rides high in the water and the boards allow her to “spin” round with ease. When you are sailing off the wind, you can drive the F17 when all other single handers have backed off, she has real volume in front of the front beam. The RX mainsail is totally controllable with quality Harken gear on mast rotation, Cunningham downhaul and mainsheet blocks, allowing you to flatten the main as required. The Harken mainsheet traveller glides with exceptional ease. On a single hander, these matters are of real importance as you have to steer with tiller extension with one hand and all the gear has to work perfectly with your other hand.

Nacra “kick-up” rudders are a joy to use and the boards settle in just the position you place them, helping you on all points of sail. When you are ready you can go a stage further and add the spinnaker, now you have the real single hander, fast, high pointing single trapezing upwind and using the spinnaker to blast you over the waves on the downwind leg and is providing the ultimate ride.

Plus Nacra’s 5 year warranty.

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