Last week, I went up the Coast of Maine to visit a few builders and check out a few new boats. I’ll be bringing you a series of blog posts over the next few weeks on the more interesting stops I made.

One of my first stops was in Bremen, Maine, just south of Waldoboro. (You know you’ve reached Bremen once your cellphone signal cuts out completely.) Here I visited with *** Vermeulen, the owner and founder of Maine Cat. The yard was busy, with six boats on order, but *** took the time to show me a P-47 power cat in mid-process and talk to about her efficiencies.

At her 15 knot cruise speed, he says she’ll have a 1,200 nautical mile range while burning just 5 gallons an hour in her twin Volvo Penta D3 160-hp diesels. The top hop for this 29,900-pound full-load displacement vessel should be around 25 knots. At a comfy eight knots, she’s got a 3000 range of 3000 nautical miles.

I’ve always been a fan of cats, but these numbers are simply amazing. And the interior detailing is nothing to sneeze at either. For more on the boat, check out mecat.com. It’s definitely worth a look.