Hull number five of Catana's newest performance cruiser — three cabins, 350 engine hours, and every line led back to the helm.
Broker Alexis de Boucaud of The Multihull Company opens his walkthrough on the dock in Gibraltar, and the pitch is refreshingly direct: S/V HEBY is hull number five of Catana’s newest model, the 50 Ocean Class, a 2023 boat with roughly 350 hours on her engines, an immaculate interior and crisp sails. In other words, a nearly new performance cruising catamaran that has already been sailed enough to be sorted.
Hull shapes and a sail plan built for passages
The tour starts with the things that make a Catana a Catana. Inclined hulls and fine entry bows are drawn for speed and a comfortable ride to weather, while the generous bridge deck clearance keeps the boat dry in a seaway. The mast is stepped well aft with a large foretriangle, balancing the rig and making shorthanded handling more manageable. Aloft, an anodized aluminum mast carries a 92-square-meter fully battened mainsail with three reefs, paired with a genoa and a gennaker on its own furler. HEBY also has the upgraded carbon compression beam with integrated carbon bowsprit.
A helm station designed around two people
This, Alexis notes, is where HEBY shows her progress over earlier Catanas. Nearly every control line — main halyard, reefing lines, genoa sheet, furling line — is led aft. Four electric Harken Performa winches sit at the helm, with two more aft dedicated to the gennaker and spinnaker, plus a separate electric winch for hoisting the tender. The raised helm gives commanding visibility with chartplotter, autopilot and engine instruments to hand, and the daggerboards are electrically operated from the same position. Forward, the anchor locker holds a stainless Ultra anchor and swivel on 100 meters of stainless chain, workable from the bow or by remote at the helm.
Volume, light and a proper galley
A four-leaf sliding companionway door links cockpit and saloon. Inside, three large forward windows — which open — and wide side glass flood the space; L-shaped seating and a folding table seat eight. One step up, the raised saloon adds a panoramic vantage point and a deep L-shaped settee that doubles as a watchkeeper’s berth, with electrical systems accessible in the storage beneath. The galley forward has a Corian countertop, three-burner induction hob, stainless electric oven with grill, 267 liters of fridge and 98 liters of freezer, and space reserved for a dishwasher. A dedicated chart table with swivel seat, full instrument console and AC/USB power sits just forward.
Three cabins, and systems for self-sufficiency
The port hull is the owner’s: a full-beam aft cabin with semi-island bed, wardrobe and drawer storage, large fixed window and hull ports, a vast en suite with glass-enclosed shower and vanity, plus a separate owner’s head compartment with electric toilet. Starboard holds a mirrored aft cabin with semi-island bed and a forward twin-bunk cabin for kids or crew, sharing a head with walk-in shower.
Offshore kit includes upgraded 80-hp Yanmars with Max-Prop propellers, a 17.5 kVA generator, a lithium battery bank, a Spectra watermaker, a large solar array and high-output engine alternators.
Where she sits in the market
Catana 50s trade thinly, which makes context useful. Site data shows two sold in the past 24 months and a single active listing.
| Metric | Figure |
|---|---|
| Sold, last 24 months | 2 |
| Median sold price | $725,000 |
| Median days to sell | ~345 |
| Active listings | 1 |
| Current asking | $1,055,000 |
| Median sold (24 mo) | $725,000 | |||
| Current asking | $1,055,000 |
Alexis closes by calling HEBY the most competitively priced 50 Ocean Class in the world today and offers to arrange a showing in Gibraltar.