Cure 55

All Carbon for Performance, Without Forgetting Comfort

If you’re planning to set sail for those far horizons, you would be well advised to choose a reliable and high-performance cruising catamaran. These two qualities are precisely what you’ll find in the Cure 55, a catamaran with clean lines and a well-designed deck layout - an ideal compromise according to Kevin Green.

The Cure 55 is one of the most exciting catamarans from Australia in recent years.

Windward passages are possible because of the deep daggerboards and spade rudders plus the fine entry of the Cure’s tall bows.

The Cure 55 comes from a pedigreed yard who’ve built some of the fastest multihulls in Australia.

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Boat Test price5.00€ Inc. tax

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Boat Test price5.00€ Inc. tax

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Test location: Gold Coast – Australia
Conditions: 20 knots of wind, 6-foot swell

Australia has been home to many high-performance multihull builds over the decades and this heritage and deep understanding of what it takes has just surfaced again in the form of this first production model from the well-credentialled yard of Cure Marine. Overcoming the limitations of many production cruising catamarans - such as upwind ability and weight - doesn’t come cheap but the rewards are clear - as I found out during an offshore day at the helm of hull number one of the Cure 55. The yard has built some of the most fabulous race boats in recent times, such as the awesome Schionning Chill Pill and Zero, thoroughbred cruiser-racer catamarans, as yard boss Dave Biggar explained:
“We’ve been building boats under the Cure banner for about 16-years but up until now we’ve always been building one-offs, mostly high-performance catamarans and a few racing monohulls but over the last 10 years, we’ve learnt a lot more about production by working in parts of the composite industry and pushing the limits in manufacturing technology, so this first production model of the Cure 55 is a mix of everyt...

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