Outremer 5X

2019 Outremer 5X - hull #26  BioTrek



BioTrek is light weight, powerful and is one of the fastest production 5X's built! It is an owner's version with three cabins built for the original owners who just completed a circumnavigation (with an additional captain's cabin). This catamaran has been meticulously maintained and is blue water ready. BioTrek is built with carbon fiber throughout: mast, pulpit, crossbar, bimini, cabin superstructure, steering wheels, daggerboards, and deep racing rudders. There are two helm stations, two electronic engine controls controlling two super-efficient 80HP Yanmar engines, with B&G displays at each helm. The owner has customized the boat for easy single-handed sailing. BioTrek has two autopilots to provide redundancy and safety. Most of the sheets, rolling lines and ropes were replaced in 2024. Facnor titanium continuous rollers are used for all three head sails.

BioTrek is ideal for a cruising couple, it is autonomous and ready for world cruising with both American and European electrical power. It has a state-of-the-art 23.4 kWh house battery that is Lloyds and DNV-GL certified (MG LFP 912Ah @ 25.6Vdc), this battery bank that only weighs 162 kgs. It is supplied by a 1.6-kW solar array, a 10000I low speed Fisher Panda Inverter generator weighing only 111 kg and two 180A 28Vdc high output alternators that are CANBUS controlled by the house battery's BMS. This boat is equipped with BOSCH induction and Bosch Inverter/convection oven, a LG 5kg high efficiency direct drive washer/dryer machine, it has no propane on board.

The port hull is the owner's cabin, modified to accommodate a computer desk in addition to the king-size bed, wardrobes, bathroom and shower room. A sliding door separates the owner hull from the salon giving complete privacy.

The starboard hull has one cabin with a king bed, and the forward cabin has a desk/workshop that converts into a cabin with a queen bed. There is a crew cabin layout in the forward starboard locker built to accommodate grandchildren or crew.

BioTrek is ready for a new owner who might want to join the 2024 Grande Large Yachting (GLY) North Atlantic Rally or the 2025 GLY World Odyssey, around the world rally exclusively offered to owners of Outremer catamarans.

Sail and Rigging

Sails, navigation and equipment

Incidence DFI mainsail 2021
DFI Genoa and DFI staysail 2020
Code D 2019 nylon with a mix of 1.5 and 2.2 oz cloth.
Stormlite Gennaker 2023
Stormlite symmetric spinnaker 2023
Net jib used with the spinnaker to prevent hourglass around the forestay.
Rotating carbon mast
Custom 3D genoa sheeting system
Two carbon tillers
Deep racing carbon rudders. This vessel has achieved sustained speed of over 28 knots and is always in easy, full control. It will easily average 260 nm per day on a crossing is established trades.
6 electric winches two are 3-speed.
2 manual-only winches on foredeck

Anchoring

Windlass new 2023 Lofran with handheld remote control with chain counter coupled to a oversized Mantis anchor.
80 meters of 10mm high strength chain

Dinghy

Octender carbon fiber OC350 tender with 15 hp DF15A Suzuki motors
Dinghy has 4 life jackets and dinghy Mantus anchor, all efficiently stowed.
Tender Transfers with yacht as equipment.

Electronics and Electrical

Ful B&G H5000 setup, including primary autopilot on starboard rudder Zeus3-12inches cockpit unit replicated on the massive 68cm high definition nav-station display running Time-Zero nav software  Halo-24 radar, VHF and AIS. The wind speed and direction is on a B&G vertical post to reduce the wind twisting effects of the square top mainsail.  The secondary autopilot is an Autohelm direct drive connected to the port rudder which provides full redundancy in case of failure.Mastervolt G1-7kw shore power isolator, with vessel generated ground as per latest ABYC standards, eliminating the possibilities of electrical shore miswiring or ground issues.
3 Mastervolt 5000/24V/100A Combo's inverters/chargers in parallel 15 kW continuous at 240 Vac, (50 or 60 Hz)
1 Mastervolt Shoremaster 24/100A universal charger (90 to 280 Vac 50 or 60Hz compatible). This vessel can accept any shore power anywhere around the world.
1.6 kW solar array with 3 independent mppt controllers, this array can easily be increased to over 3kW if needed.
MG 23.4 kWh LFP battery bank new Nov 2023 (Lloyds and DMV certified)
240 Vac to 120 Vac transformer (for 120 V American loads).
Solar panels above davits and soft panels on cabin-top (Total 1.6 kW)
Desalinator 100l/h 240Vac/24Vdc watermaker with all r/o cartridges changed 2022.

Engines and Generator

Two 80 HP Yanmar 4JH80 diesel engines, SD60 Saildrives with high efficiency 3 blades 20/14 Gori propellers. Both engines have new starting batteries (2024), they each have approximately 1,700 hours and run perfectly.
Two 12V Yanmar + two 180A 28V CanBus BMS controlled alternators.
Fisher Panda 10000i Generator

Galley and Interior Misc

Gally and interior and misc.

Double refrigerator
Freezer
Bosch 5 burner induction plate and Bosch combination microwave/convection cooking oven with mixed functions.
Fully equipped galley (plates, silverware, cooking pans and pots for induction cooking)
Washing machine/dryer; LG 5kg direct drive
Safety equipment includes life raft, EPIRB, flares, spotlight, low loss co-ax VHF cable.
Navigation computer new 2023.
Electric toilets, sea/freshwater
On-demand water heater
Tank water heater (not used now but ready to fill).
5 Air conditioning/heating units, one in each cabin and two in main saloon
Port side king bed and office desk
Starboard side king bed, queen bed or desk, and crew cabin
Convertible crew area in forward starboard sail locker
Navigation station with 360 all around view
Laser printer
Access to all electrical and plumbing via removable panels.
World cruising guides
Paddleboard
Two bean bag chairs with BioTrek logo
Sun covers and canvas covers for cockpit and salon cabin windows.