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CREATURE COMFORT

LOA: 73'9"

Beam: 28'4"

Draft: 5'11"

Displ.: 163,142 lbs.

Fuel: 2,000 gal.

Water: 400 gal.

Test Power: 2/1,150-hp Caterpillar C18 ACERT

Cruise Speed: 19 knots

Top Speed: 23 knots

Price: $6.6 million

One of the design goals for the Horizon Power Catamarans line, which ranges from 52 to 74 feet, is for each model to look as much like a monohull as possible when viewed in profile. But as I prepared to board the builder’s new flagship PC74 Open Flybridge from the transom, it was clear this was no monohull. High, wide and handsome, the four-stateroom vessel spanned a 28-plus-foot swath from sponson to sponson. It was a catamaran, all right, and at nearly 74 feet LOA, one of the largest I’d sea-trialed.

The concept for this capacious cruising power cat dates back more than a decade, when

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