Tribute for sale: 140-150K


A 2005 Oram Mango in duflex/epoxy with foam cabintop. 

Description: Generally speaking, Mangos are 38 ft cruiser-racers ; light, simple, comfortably spartan but quick catamarans. A single large lifting daggerboard port-side, and kick-up rudders in casettes allow for both shallow water sailing and good pointing ability. Bob Oram described the design of this boat as follows: What makes a boat fast and seaworthy is length. What makes it expensive is size. Thus the Mango has the accommodation and sailplan of a  32 footer, but gets sailing benefits from the extra 6 feet.

Performance: She  will do windspeed at under 10 knots of breeze, and I am happy to leave the boat cruising to its autopilot up to 13 knots boatspeed. Top speed hasn't been tested by me as I reef when the boat exceeds 16 knots. It has clocked up several 200 nM plus 24-hour runs while cruising and a 183nM upwind at 35 degrees AWA in open ocean too which is actually more impressive.
 See below- 13.5 knots in 15 knots of breeze, sailing solo under spinnaker.

Cruising/accommodation: 
Tribute has twice sailed from WA to Indonesia and back with three aboard, totalling 6 months of liveaboard cruising. Her delivery run from Brisbane was done with up to 5 aboard.

There are 2 queen mattresses in separate 'cabins' , and a singles bunk in the starboard bow.  There is a fourth +/- queen sized bunk, but that has little headspace and would probably only suit kids. I use it for storage. The settee converts to another 'emergency' bunk.

• Two 175 l freshwater tanks 
•  A +/- 150 l fridge
• 2 burner propane stove
• Microwave
• A second 'drinks' fridge in the cockpit .
• Single electric toilet on the port side
• Saloon seats 4-5 around a removable table.
• Navigator's table in the port hull.

The above is not luxurious by live- aboard standards but it has been sufficient.

Handling:
What originally sold me on the boat were its sail handling ergonomics: the five winches are all at chest level and all lines, including the reefing lines, lead back to the cockpit. It is at night in a blow that this really pays off. From the wheel all corners of the boat are visible. Despite having  a central, single engine I can turn the boat around in a channel 15m wide. This took practice, but it is possible. An unusual ( and rarely used) feature is a 400l water ballast tanks aft in each hull. They have been put to good use to stop the boat planing off the waves in a big following sea. Presumably they can be used for speed too, but I usually reef instead.
The boat is extremely easy to single-hand.

Safety: 

• Balsa/epoxy is unsinkable
• Lifelines around decks
• 6-man liferaft, repacked May 2019
• The underside of the bridgedeck is painted in orange anti-slip
• EPIRB
• VHF radio with AIS and DSC
• Escape hatches in both hulls in case of capsize
• Parachute anchor ( never used) 
• Drogue Chute ( never used)
• 2x400l water ballast, self-filling and draining.

Main wear and tear items: Well maintained, she has been refitted with the big-ticket items in the past few years and has seen minimal use in the past three years because of silting up of its port's access.

•  A professional exterior repaint late 2018 in reputedly the hardest-wearing 2-pack 
• A new 25 Hp High-thrust Yamaha engine ( 2016) with less than 100 hrs on it. 
• New standing rigging ( Tasker's) 2015
• New fully battened triradial main in cruising laminate 2015
• New boom bag, new cockpit cushions 2018
• Furling spinnaker and laminate screecher in good nick
• Storm jib- rarely used- and big spinnaker both 15 years old but serviceable

Electronics/electrics: 

• Speed ,depth, bottom on  fishfinder
• NASA wireless wind instrument
• Raymarine wheel autopilot- new belt 2019
• B&G multiplexer
• VHF radio with passive AIS and DSC
• Programmable Plasmatronics PL20
• 200AH LiFePO4 batteries
• 100AH starting battery ( doubles as 'spare' house battery)
• Maxwell anchor winch, remote control at helm and remote 'hoist' button on foredeck

I navigate using iNavX on a mini iPad, using navionics charts. The multiplexer's WiFi repeats wind, speed, depth and AIS to iNavX. 

It has worked very well for me but requires some familiarity with the systems. I wonder if a new owner would not be better off with a more mainstream setup.


Bits, bobs and pieces: I have owned Tribute since 2007.Only one thing has gone wrong in all those years and 30.000 nM: a broken daggerboard through operator's error.
I replaced many things, especially electronics, but have altered very little over the years. The main ones are the installation of:

• 200AH Lithium batteries
• 2x150W swinging solar panels
• UHMPE main sailtrack
• Furling spinnaker
• B&G WiFi Multiplexer- navigation now through an iPad
• Fabrication of an aft trampoline- considerably adding to stowage space.

On the to-do list:

1. The coppercoat antifoul is not good enough in its current, barely-used condition. Haulout & 'normal' antifouling planned. New owner might want to decide otherwise.
2. One of the side windows leaks, probably best to reseal them all. Minimal finances but at least a  weekend of work.
3. New masthead tricolour needs fitting
4. See my thoughts about instruments. 
5. The 300W solar runs through a separate relay, controlled by the PL20. A bigger controller would be more user-friendly.
6. I have been discussing re-upholstering the cushions,-but haven't actually done so.

Below some interior pics: