Smart Marine president Chris Schoenbohm is still hoping to have the first Phoenix 32 catamaran at the Super Boat International National Championship race in Clearwater Beach, Fla., at the end of September.
Hull No. 1 of the Phoenix 32 is a race version and yesterday, its paint job was close to being finished and the boat was getting ready to go into rigging. Schoenbohm had hoped that Grant Bruggemann at Grant’s Signature Rigging in Sarasota, Fla., would rig the first hull, but Smart Marine is going to do the work in-house.