Welcome Back Sailing Catamaran

A catamaran built around outdoor living, Welcome Back turns her flybridge into the main lounge and drops a hydraulic platform at the stern for stepping straight into the water. Sunreef Yachts finished her as a Sunreef 50 sailing catamaran in 2019, and her design puts space on deck ahead of anything below.

Build and provenance

She is a Sunreef 50, built to Sunreef Yachts' own naval architecture and interior design, so hull and cabin came from the same studio. Composite construction and a nine-metre beam give the catamaran hull its deck space, completed in 2019.

Layout and accommodation

Four cabins sleep eight guests, with a VIP forward and three further guest cabins, plus a separate crew cabin kept apart from the guest areas. That separation matters on a catamaran, where the hulls carry the cabins and the bridge deck carries the living space: guests keep their own hull to themselves while crew work from theirs.

Performance and engineering

Twin 80hp saildrive engines handle manoeuvring and calms, while a full sail wardrobe, including a gennaker, carries her when the wind is up. She carries a pair of watermakers alongside a generator and solar panels, backed by a house battery bank, so she can sit off a beach for days without needing shore power.

On deck and at anchor

The flybridge lounge sits above the cockpit as a second living deck, and the hydraulic swim platform drops down to become a stretch of terrace at the waterline as much as a way down to the sea. Both spaces are built for time spent at anchor rather than under way.

Where she lies and how to see her

Welcome Back lies in Turkey. Boatcrowd sets up viewings there and is present for them, and once an offer is accepted we bring in the surveyor and arrange the sea trial before anything is signed off.