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Performance Cruising Inc. - The Official Gemini 105MC and Telstar 28 Web - I find the boat to be a best of both worlds design in a smallish cruising catamaran. I am of course partial and biased.
The hulls are roughly 8:1 length: beam. I've had mine at 10.3 knts SOG in 16 knts on a close reach (50 degrees off the wind) going up current in 1.25 knts of current. Other owners have reported (and photographed) top speeds of 18 knts, and routinely get 10+.
From the side the gemini looks like a moderately high windage mono. That's hard to do with a queen sized bed in the master cabin and twin staterooms aft with double beds. It has 39 inches of clearance at the front it takes chesapeake chop well on the nose, but with only 18 inches at the stern we do get the occasional 'thumb' on the floor of the cockpit. Reportedly they do well in typical ocean swell and have crossed the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean quite well. Several reside in Hawaii, having sailed there on their own bottoms, a couple are currently circumnavigating (
theslapdash.com.
By making the salon area standing height for only the walk in area and sitting height at the salon table Tony Smith (the designer) was able to give it a nice profile. Otherwise, headroom is 6'2" throughout.
I routinely dock my boat in a cross wind of 5 or so knots and I can tell you it parks and tracks as surely as a car with very little problem caused by windage.
Mine:
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