These are wonderful boats in many ways that sailors do not often think about. My wife and I sailed Wavelength, our 1982 Cherubini 44 Ketch , on a nine year circumnavigation. 1. They handle heavy weather extremely well. I have been in three gales, one with 20 foot seas off of Santa Marta Columbia, and two gales between New Zealand and Fiji with wind well over 60 knots. This boat hoves to with a main sail only, no headsail needed. Our vessel has a carbon mainmast with Hood in mast roller furling so we can reduce mainsail area to accommodate the wind and wave conditions when hove to. For a conventional main put in an extremely large third reef or even a fourth. Very little main is necessary. 2. Motion comfort is great. I reviewed approx. 50 boats for relative comfort in a seaway and found only one other vessel, a Cape George 40, that exceeded a Cherubini 44. 3. Surfs down down 20 ft. seas without rounding up. 4. 3:22 Tracks well, thus can undersize autopilot and save energy on passages. My Raymarine rotary autopilot uses 1-3 amps/hour 5. Nylon Mizzen staysail along with polled out roller furling jibe , sheet thru snatch block on end of prevented out main boom was my go to sail plan at night single handing back from Brazil. One can douse the staysail from the windward side deck next to traveler when the wind picks up. 6. I was able to have back to back , solo, 200 nm days. 7. Room to store 10 ft Trinka dingy on cabin top chocks. 8. Unbeatable side deck passage. 9. Room to store eight, 5 gallon jerrycans of diesel or water. 10. Sails flat. Typically 10 degrees heel. Reefing before 20 degrees. I have a friend who needs to sail his Baltic design at 30 degrees. Hold on!
These are wonderful boats in many ways that sailors do not often think about. My wife and I sailed Wavelength, our 1982 Cherubini 44 Ketch , on a nine year circumnavigation. 1. They handle heavy weather extremely well. I have been in three gales, one with 20 foot seas off of Santa Marta Columbia, and two gales between New Zealand and Fiji with wind well over 60 knots. This boat hoves to with a main sail only, no headsail needed. Our vessel has a carbon mainmast with Hood in mast roller furling so we can reduce mainsail area to accommodate the wind and wave conditions when hove to. For a conventional main put in an extremely large third reef or even a fourth. Very little main is necessary. 2. Motion comfort is great. I reviewed approx. 50 boats for relative comfort in a seaway and found only one other vessel, a Cape George 40, that exceeded a Cherubini 44. 3. Surfs down down 20 ft. seas without rounding up. 4. 3:22 Tracks well, thus can undersize autopilot and save energy on passages. My Raymarine
rotary autopilot uses 1-3 amps/hour 5. Nylon Mizzen staysail along with polled out roller furling jibe , sheet thru snatch block on end of prevented out main boom was my go to sail plan at night single handing back from Brazil. One can douse the staysail from the windward side deck next to traveler when the wind picks up. 6. I was able to have back to back , solo, 200 nm days. 7. Room to store 10 ft Trinka dingy on cabin top chocks. 8. Unbeatable side deck passage. 9. Room to store eight, 5 gallon jerrycans of diesel or water. 10. Sails flat. Typically 10 degrees heel. Reefing before 20 degrees. I have a friend who needs to sail his Baltic design at 30 degrees. Hold on!
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Beautiful boat but very bad interior, the 48’ is better but both these boats are foe sailing not good for living aboard.