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Introduction

Dream Catcher is a 1994 PDQ 36, designed by Simon Slater and built by PDQ Yachts in Whitby Ontario, Canada. She is the 41st hull of the 36 series. PDQ also manufactures Dream Catcher's little sister, the PDQ32 and in 2001 began offering a larger PDQ42 (now a 44)as well.

Boat statistics:
  • Sloop rig, 795 square feet of sail area
  • 8100 lbs. displacement
  • 36' 5" overall, 34' 4 " waterline
  • 18' 3" beam, 2' 10" draft
  • Twin Yamaha 9.9 4 stroke engines
  • Tankage: 85 gallons water, 55 gallons fuel, 25 gallon holding
  • Mini keel under body with skeg hung rudders
  • Sacraficial keel boxes in the event of a hard grounding

Dream Catcher is layed out with two staterooms forward, in either hull. These staterooms sport a full sized queen matress as well as hanging storage forward and book shelves lining the interior wall. Each stateroom has two opening ports overhead as well as a small ventalation port on the outside wall.

The starboard (right) hull is deemed the owners hull and stepping aft from the state room finds a large navigation area that houses all of the electronic gear required to make Dream Catcher go. Both the 110V AC and the 12v DC control panels are housed here as well. Charts are stored under the openeing desk and an opening locker is found next to the desk.

Heading further aft, you pass the stairs leading up to the salon area and enter the head. The head has a standard manual marine toilet and a seperate sink basin. One of the reasons we bought Dream Catcher is the seperate shower stall located all way aft in the head.

Heading up the stairs to the bridge deck, you find a large comfortable salon that seats easily seats six. In the salon we have a 17" flat screen LCD HD TV and a 12 volt car DVD/MP3/CD/CDR player for entertainment. The salon table has two fold out leaves for larger crowds, and there are two more large opening hatches directly above the table. The door to the cockpit is located a midship and continuing across takes you down another set of stairs int the port hull.

Forward in the port hull, is the already mentioned second stateroom. Aft from that is the galley. Dream Catcher's galley sports a Force 10 two burner LPG stove top and oven, two stainless steel sinks, and a 12v refrigerator/freezer combo unit. There are several cabinets for storage and somewhere near 16 square feet of counter space.

All way aft in the port hull was designed from the factory as a thrid stateroom with a double bed. We have since removed the bed and installed storage bins, and this cabin is now referred to as the garage. We store everything from dry food stuffs to our two mountain bikes and Amy's sea kayak in there.

Outside the salon area is the cockpit and thats where all of the sailing related activity takes place. The are two raised Captains chairs, one on either side, and the starboard side chair is where the boat and the engines are controlled from. All the sail control lines for Dream Catcher are lead aft and she can be sailed by one person without ever having to leave the cockpit. At anchor there is seating for six in and around the cockpit area