Introducing the new Catalina 445!

The "WOW" factor is back at Catalina! The Catalina 445 starts a new path in design, function and features for Catalina. It surely fits Catalina new marketing theme "The Closer You Look, The Better It Gets". This all-new model incorporates crisp, contemporary styling with proportions and features that make Catalinas comfortable and secure underway and on the hook.

Based on a new hull design with a long waterline and moderate beam and freeboard, the 445 has excellent performance potential. The hull form is optimized to provide the gentle, predictable motion underway, which is appreciated in other Catalina models. The 445 is a bit narrower (with a beam of 13 feet 7 inches) than its Catalina cousins, and the cabin top has a low profile and is sleek, tapering off to meet the foredeck ahead of the Seldén slightly fractional (at 19/20ths) mast.

The deck, finished with Catalina's traditional diamond-patterned non-skid, is strikingly handsome with a low profile cabin structure, twin helm stations and a roomy cockpit with tall, secure coamings that offer excellent sight lines and ready access to the sail control lines. The cockpit table seats 4-6 with an easily cleaned top and built-in cooler. Forward, a removable bowsprit can be fitted for light air conditions.

Below, the accommodations are designed for live-aboard comfort. Forward, the owner's roomy stateroom features a queen-size bed—the bed's forward end can be tilted up with an electric motor for reading—and its own head and shower.

Aft, to starboard, is a second large cabin, this one fit out with a diagonally situated double. This cabin shares its head and shower with the saloon. Both fore and aft heads connect to gravity-drain holding tanks with a combined 54 gallons of capacity. Located on opposite sides of the boat, both face inward, ensuring that there'll be a place to go on either tack.

Aft and to port of the companionway is a smaller cabin that can be set up to meet an owner's needs at the time: as a sleeping quarter for friends or kids or, with the berth folded up, a storage space or workshop. Access to this cabin is through a door aft of the galley and also from above, through the cockpit settee.

The L-shaped galley sports a three-burner propane stove and oven, Isotherm refrigeration, and a number of amenities that a cook will appreciate, including storage for a set of Calphalon pots, an idea that Douglas' wife came up with to prevent rattling.

Teak laminates and solid teak trim are found throughout. In the saloon, a portside U-shaped couch surrounds a table that can be lowered to create another double berth. Opposite, chairs sit to either side of a small table that can also be lowered to form a berth or settee. Just aft is the nav station, with room for paper charts and a dedicated place to set a laptop.

Videos:

Gerry Douglas explains the Catalina construction story and the 5 part construction used on the Catalina 445 and other Catalina models. Cruising World provides an excellent introduction to the design in their First Look Video. And lastly, Latitudes and Attitudes Magazine test sails the model on San Francisco Bay in this New Design Review.

Specifications:

Like all Catalinas above 30 feet, the new Catalina 445 is robustly built to CE category A standards, is NMMA Yacht Certified and follows all applicable American Boat and Yacht Council Standards, thus assuring the Catalina owner a quality, safe, durable yacht.

Catalina Yachts at HYS

For more information on purchasing a new Catalina from HYS, use the following links:

• Search our Inventory - Check availability of this and other Catalina yachts at HYS
• Catalina Lineup - View the range of new yachts from Catalina

We have a brand new, in-stock 2012 C445 at our docks. Give us a call for details!