XQUISITE 30 SPORTCAT
Xquisite cataramans are well known as comfortable, well-built long-distance cruising cats, with all of the luxury and accouterments one would expect—the antithesis, in other words, of minimalism. Which is why Xquisite’s new offering, the 30 Sportcat designed by François Perus, causes a double take of neck-twinging proportions.
With a rotating carbon mast, carbon deck beams, displacement of just 1,872 pounds, North 3Di sails, an interior whose greatest luxury is a mattress, and a construction methodology that lets it be dismantled and fit onto a trailer or inside a 40-foot shipping container, this little rocket is just begging to be sailed fast—and that is precisely its purpose, according to Tamas Hamor, Xquisite’s founder and CEO.
“That was the goal—the best training boat for people to learn how to sail, but it’s fast enough for people who know how to sail to have fun,” he says. “Half of our owners buying new boats have never sailed before. We want to