The Switch 51 is a classic, high performance world voyager designed by VPLP. She was built with high tech materials and techniques at Sud Composites in Sete, France. Sud built 18 of these fine performance catamarans from 2000 to 2007, at which time the yard was taken over by Swiss Cat, another renowned builder of boutique performance cats. 

During the early years at Sud Composites, The Multihull Company was the North American distributor and we sold several of these exceptional cats to our customers, all of whom loved the boats and sailed great distances in them safely and swiftly.  One of our customers raced his Switch 51 and took winning honors in every race he entered.  But for all that, the Switch is a very comfortable liveaboard voyager. Her two aft master cabins are very spacious and her forward port V-berth is double bed size. 

TREBUCHET is a 2000 Switch 51 (hull # 1) in good condition and well equipped for liveaboard cruising. She is a fully kitted catamaran ready to sail anywhere in the world.  Just take a look at her full specs  to see all the gear and equipment she has on her.  Her daggerboards and sleek hulls give her the ability to point much higher to the wind than the typical keel equipped catamaran.  She will easily average 9 to 11 knots over a 24 hour period in favorable conditions and she is capable of high teens in surfing and high wind conditions. Unlike comparable Outremer 50 to 55 of this vintage, she is all composite above the waterline (single skin vinlylester resin under the waterline) with all foam cored hull and even foam cored furniture.  Her wider flared hulls will carry far greater payloads without bogging down. The Switch 51 is a fantastic option for any customers looking to go places in style - she is fast, attractive, and comfortable.  You can have the all the advantages of a modern performance-oriented catamaran without the price tag of a new build design.

TREBUCHET is currently located in Sag Harbor, NY and available for showings by appointment.

Construction:

The hull, bulkheads, nacelle, deck, roof and cockpit are constructed from fiberglass/vinylester and foam sandwich composites and the interior fittings are made from honeycomb. The monolithic bottom hulls are made of solid glass reinforced vinylester. The dual daggerboards are a carbon fiber composite construction.  She is fitted with grounding skegs to protect the saildrives and crash boxes located at the bows and at the swim platforms. Her engine rooms and forepeaks are both equipped with watertight bulkheads. She is the first catamaran of the Switch 51 series and is CE approved – Category A (Ocean). 

Layout and Accomodations: 

Starboard owner’s hull: Entire owner’s hull closes off from salon. The stern cabin has a queen size bed 160 x 200cm (63′′ x 79′′) bench seat. Double sink and electric toilet in head forward, with separate stall shower forward 

U-shaped saloon table seating 6

Chart table with room for computer, printer, charts and electronics 

Guest hull : 2 double cabins plus one head amidships with electric toilet 

Cockpit:

Large cockpit/deck saloon: teak flooring and trim

Set of cushions with sunbrella covers

Dual helms with mechanical steering, leather wrapped stainless steel wheels, and engines controls at port helm 

Cockpit lighting

Copious cockpit storage

SS davits with 3 solar panels

Stainless steel fixed bimini with cloth + net and side curtains

Mechanical:

2 x 56HP Yanmar 4JH3E diesel – 1900hrs (Rebuilt in 2016 at 4000hrs) 

SD30 Saildrives

3-Blade Flex-o-fold folding props

The 2 engine compartments are soundproof and totally independent from accommodations 

Fuel: 2 x 55gal tanks - 110 gal total

New Alum generator mount so tank is removable

Bauer Dive Compressor (New 2018)

Deck and Rig: 

Standing Rigging replaced in 2018

Fully-battened mainsail (Dacron perf), 78 m2 (839 ft2), 3 reefs, lazy jacks and a lazybag 

Genoa 50 m2 (538 ft2), with UV protective strip on a Profurl NC52 furler (New 2022)

Staysail (heavy Dacron) 21 m2 (226 ft2) with UV protective strip on a Profurl NC 42 furler 

Gennaker 80 m2 (861 ft2) on Profurl EC 4000 gennaker furler 

Symetrical spinnaker 145 m2 (1561 ft2) with sock. 

Mainsail track + ball bearing cars – Frederiksen 

2 x Lewmar Electric Winches

5 x Lewmar Self-tailing manual winches

13 Lewmar deck hatches, 8 opening port holes and 2 Goiot escape hatches

(Larger Lewmar hatches added in 2021)

Crossbeam removed and rebuilt welding with titanium rivets in 2020

Anchoring:

Lofrans 1200W Tigres windlass with foot operation 

Rocna 73lb anchor + 300ft of chain 

Plumbing:

Spectra 330 13/gph Watermaker - can be run efficiently on one pump at 8/gph (New 2018)

1 x 100 gal poly fresh water tank

1 x 20gal stainless steel water heater (New 2022)

2 x 20gal Vacuflush holding tanks  

4 Jabsco 1500 gal/hour bilge pumps – one in each hull and engine room + 2 manual pumps– one each in each hull 

2 Jabsco 500 gal/hour shower sump pumps in heads 

Hot/cold shower on port transom 

Galley:

Large galley SS sink with drying rack and mixer tap (New 2022)

4-burner stove and oven combo unit  (New 2022)

Stainless steel 2-drawer 12V Refrigerator  

1 built-in deep freezer 

Propane on auto-changeover regulator with solenoid and propane sniffer 

Propane grill

Electricity:

6 x 150ah Lifeline GPL-6GT House battery bank - 900ah total (New Oct 2023)

2 x engine alternators 

Outback 2812 Charger / Inverter

5kW Generator – 974 hours

3 x solar panels

Outback Solar Charge Controller

Victron Battery Monitor

220V and 110V outlets throughout cabins + 2 12V outlets at chart table 

FP genset control at chart table 

Electronics:

2 x B&G 12in Chart Plotters in the cockpit (New 2021)

B&G Halo 24 Radar (New 2021)

Raymarine Auto Pilot

Raymarine ST60 wind, tridata and maxiview instruments over companionway

Airmar WS-200 Ultrasonic Mast wind head unit w GPS, temp, humidity and 3 axis dynamic compass

Icom IC-802 SSB with Proctor Modem

Icom IC-M504 NAv Station VHF, mast mount antenna

Icom IC-M604 Helm Station VHF

Sirus Weather Satellite radio

NEMA 200 backbone (new  2021)

Dual stereo receiver with 2 external speakers + 2 speakers in the saloon, bluetooth capable with multiple input sources 

Starlink Internet (New 2023)

Iridium Go with external antenna and new sin cards (New 2022)

Dinghy:

Zodiac inflatable dinghy with Yamaha 9.9hp outboard

Safety:

Fire/smoke detectors in engine rooms

Fire Extiguishers throughout

Life Raft

Numerous spares and extras

The Multihull Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.