2001 Richard Woods Skua — UK - S England

A 2001 Woods Skua in the south of England, asking $36,195 through Multihull World. Richard Woods has spent four decades drawing catamarans an owner can build, trail and sail fast, and the Skua is the limit of that idea — the largest cat that sensibly demounts and tows behind a car: 30 feet of round-bilge hulls with daggerboards, kick-up rudders and a performance rig, a grown-up Strider carrying four berths and real load capacity. Woods claims twenty knots offwind for the type, and one Skua crossed the Atlantic from Germany to the Caribbean in 2002–03.

Two honesty notes. Skuas are built from plans, not on a line, so any given hull is exactly as good as the hands that built it — the survey carries the whole weight here. And this is the only Skua we hold: no sister ship benchmarks the asking price.

What the shelf does place is the money. Among the catamarans under $100k we hold near this size, $36,195 is close to the floor — and this 2001 hull is younger than every one of them; the only comparables newer than it ask $139,990 and up.

The single cheaper door is the 1983 Gemini 31/3000 at Brick, New Jersey — the same 30 feet, production-built, $9,295 less and eighteen years older:

Near the same money, the 1985 Prout Snowgoose 37 at Luperon buys seven more feet of proven bluewater cat, at the cost of sixteen years:

And where a factory paper trail matters more than the last five knots, the 1997 Gemini 105 Mc at Kemah is the production middle path, $13,705 more:

But nothing else at this money sails like a Woods. If it is the twenty-knot pocket cat you are after, this is the one to survey first: