TOPIC: 1960 Yamaha Catamaran

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Just saw this posted on Facebook and thought I would share..
As early as 1960 Yamaha had their own production model
catamaran and were racing it in open ocean marathons over
there. It states that they won a race from Tokyo to Osaka
with one powered by 4x75hp McCulloch Scott motors in 1961.
When you think about the 1960 time frame, this was when
OMC was just getting started with their Trimaran boat offering,
and Power Cat and the other US Cat manufacturers had been only
making fiberglass models for 2 or 3 years.
The attached photo is one owned by the family of the person
who posted on Facebook.

Danny Leger

Lots of space on that luxo barge!
Once you had Cat, aint no going back.
Danny, I'm picking up that 18T in CO once the snow is gone in Spring.

That's a lot of boat in 21' and with a 10' beam trailering would be interesting. That pic was posted on here a few years ago as an unkbown. Thanks for putting a name and history to it. I never would have guessed Yamaha.

I'd love to see the 4 Scott's OB version running flat out, what a screamer.........

Same publicity photo as published in the January 1961 issue of MotorBoating magazine: