marlin catamaran (boxed) Version 1.2.1

Inspired by the 7.9m catamaran from Cheetah Marine, this is a small versatile catamaran intended for a variety of roles such as coastal survey, harbour master and patrolling.

It's been sensibly built to allow you to remove parts that you don't need or want so that you can modify it for crab/lobster catching, diving, fishing or just simple pleasure boating.

Like my other vehicles, it is minimally scripted and everything is there to ensure you get a reliable vehicle with a sense of the real thing. It is designed to be extremely modifiable and resilient to modding. The majority of the code can be modified too, since I believe in giving you as much flexibility for modding as I can.

So you won't find lots of features that aren't directly related to being a skipper. I don't add things that I personally would never/rarely use.

What you will find is a boat built to RL scale, with everything needed to simply go on a journey in something that looks and feels like a boat.

Briefly, the main features are:-

a) about 32/33 knot top speed in normal mode, about 41 knots in high speed mode

b) will rock about and crest off of imaginary waves when moving

c) rocking motion can be turned on/off when moored

d) an optional fuel system

e) can be guested to others

f) various moving/animated parts

g) navigation and mast lights work

h) a working light bar with a variety of colours, patterns and siren/horn sounds for people that like that sort of thing

i) and if you get it beached on land, expect it to stay there! (so don't get it beached!)

If you're taller than a RL human (about 6 feet) then you'll probably not be able to walk through the cabin door in to the cabin, the boat is rather small and SL doesn't give us the luxury of stooping to get through low doors. But the boat can be scaled up or down to fit you just fine :)

There are 2 versions included in the box, one with 2 seats and one with 4 seats. You can add/remove seats if you need to, the boat shouldn't complain.

The 2 seater is 60 land impact while the 4 seater is 62 land impact.

Version 1.2.0 added a high speed mode and a choice of 2 reverse steering modes, while AVSittre support got added in 1.2.1 for those wanting to use it but not wanting to tweak existing code to enable AVSit usage.

See the in world shop for a demo!

• 100% homemade for SL, by me
• a solid vehicle for travelling the grid
• can be guested to others
• *very* modifiable, including most of the code
• includes an AVSitter enabled version