Mares 38 Cat?
 

Anyone know anything about this boat?

http://www.powerboatlistings.com/view/18042

Besides having (in my opinion, an ugly ass paint job) I know nothing about these boats. My buddy is looking at it for running in the Pacific.

How would it run in 3 to 5's VS a V-hull?

Are they well built? I'd be a bit concerned about the drives holding up.

The Mares 38 is a great rough water boat.
I have hundreds of hours running this boat in the ocean. This one was designed and built in New Zealand when the waters are rough.
In my opinion the drives on the boat will not hold those engines.
There is one in Tampa new paint and upholstery HP 500’s bravo drives very nice boat

Just bought one myself, well built boat probably not the fastest of cats from all accounts but supposedly a really good offshore boat.
Just in the middle of rebuilding the motors so haven't had a chance to run the boat yet to see how fast it actually is.

Does anyone know how fast one of these cats will be with a pair of Merc 500efis on Bravo 1s

Should run about 80.

Great that will be ideal for my first cat.

Cant comment on perf but the only part about the paint I like is the airbrushed motor...too bad they only have it on one side

Congratulations on your new 38 Mares it should run about 80 MPH. The 38 is a great running boat.
My name is Lenny Noble the owner of Mares if you have any questions please feel free to contact me. I will be at the Ft Lauderdale boat show with the New 45 Mares Power Cat. I will try to post some pictures of the new 45 if not go to the Mares web site marescatamarans.com

Hi Lenny. Thanks for responding on here. How fast would that 38 be with the 800's?

Nice intake and exhaust . . . . Im guessing JC Whitney :D always entertaining when car guys try there hand at doing a custom boat :picard1:

Yeah, I got a chuckle out of that too. Easy fix though.

Boy, isn't that the truth. lol

The boat will run well over 100 MPH with 800 HP and that will depend on what engines and drives and how the boat is set up.
There is a 38 for sale on the Mares web site it is also on Yacht World
I can’t seem to post pictures on here any more.

How do you post a picture i hit insert image and it wants a url

If you click " go advanced" the scoll down to manage attachments. you can ad the pic s an attachment.

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This MARES 38 POWERCAT 38 was posted 05-Sep-2012 . :lolhit:

If the guy couldn't sell it in a year..........

In comparison what speed would a 36 Nortech run with a pair of 500EFIs on Bravos?

At least 100MPH,mine did 115 with 525s Bravo boat.

So that makes the Mares 15-20% slower than the likes of a Nortech ect. is this purly down to the weight of the Mares?

If you want speed buy a Nor Tech They are a good boat. Mares has a huge cabin, walk around deck ,cockpit, Sun Pad and swim platform and runs great in rough water .It is comfortable and user friendly . It just depends on how you use your boat .

Thanks Larry I am very happy with the Mares, I was try trying to establish what the differences are between the two hull designs that effect the speed with similar power.
At some point I will be looking for a cruise speed of around 80-90 and was wondering what I need to do to achieve this.

Will changing the drive height and a tunnel tab do anything to increase the boats speed?

i think thats sweet with the cabin underneath.

The Mercury 700’s would be the way to go. Which boat do you have? What engines are in there now? We never used a tunnel tab never had any reason to get into that.
If you have questions give me a call 954523 2287

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Hey Lenny.

Cant wait to check it out at the show! From what I hear she purrrrrs..Congrats on the new line of cats!

I have one now with 525 EFI and i'm barely getting 70mph with 1/4 tank of fuel and just 2 ppl... Props are Bravo ones 28 and spinning to about 5400.

Hello Payton, What is your connnection to Super Hawaii ?

That`s a bit embarrasing for a cat sorry to say.

Well we figured out why. We had 150 gallons of water up in the bow.

I hope that was in a ballast tank.

900 lbs of water .. lol.
why in the world ??

That’s a huge holding tank for your toilet!
Never carry excess chit if you want to go fast. :D

RR

From the last step forward the sponsons are hollow and do not drain anywhere. There are several areas where if the boat was to fill up with water it would be able to go past the liner into these sponsons.. and then become trapped there. We did the math and should be well over 1200lbs lighter now. And over 100 gallons was forward of the helm so that should explain the significant loss of speed and lack of bow lift at speed.