Curious Cat is a solar-electric sailing catamaran set to travel around the world while logging her excellent adventures.
Built in Canada by TEK-composites and launched on July 5th 1998 under her original name “Northern Bounty”, she is the only TEK-45 (AKA Tektron 44) ever built. This boat is a love child of TEK-35 and Tektron 50, both John Shuttleworth’s designs, and the latter being at one point one of the fastest multihulls in the world. TEK-composites Inc. was a subsidiary of Tektron Equipment Corporation (formed in 1986), that specialized in manufacturing airplane and helicopter hulls, producing only 15 boats during its lifetime. Those included first three legendary Manta catamarans, molds to which were later sold to American investors with Manta becoming US-made cats.
Originally purchased for $1M by three couples that took her on a one-year voyage, she ended up being a slip queen for over 20 years on the Gulf Coast of Florida near Saint James City. After getting reposessed twice and going through many owners while remaining docked at the very same spot, she now belongs to yours truly as of March 2022.