“If you want a boat that a family of four could comfortably cruise on, but you also want outboard power, your choices are going to be limited. If you want that same boat to enjoy a range of well over 300 miles at cruising speed and a top-end hitting 30 mph, your choices will be even more limited. And if you also want that boat to come standard with a bow thruster for easy maneuvering, a solar charging system for easy recharging, and a Lewmar 1000 windlass for easy anchoring, well, your choices just became exceptionally limited. Oh, and you say you want a gorgeous teak interior, too? Lucky for you, Aspen Power Catamarans builds the Aspen C108.
The C108 is 37 feet, six inches long, boasts a 10-foot, eight-inch beam, and tips the scales at over five tons dry. Normally those specifications alone would mean you’d be doomed to rather epic inefficiency and relatively low range with gasoline powerplants, but the C108 maintains around two mpg at a 20-mph cruise with 300-plus mile abilities (including a 10-percent reserve) thanks to its entirely unique hull design…”
