New 2009 Glacier Bay Boats

Glacier Bay boats builds the finest power catamarans on the market

Glacier Bay catamarans have earned the highest reputation for their unique design, unparalleled performance and matchless construction. Recognized as the industry leader, our evolving fleet has earned the respect of our owners and dealers by exceeding expectations -- every time.


Glacier Bay boats reputation rests on its patented displacement hull design. Our hulls "slice" through the water to provide Glacier Bay boats now famous, dry, stable ride. The end result is a boat that exhibits the softest, most stable, quickest, driest and most FUEL EFFICIENT ride available. Owners everywhere love the way their Glacier Bay boats slices the water and never pounds and spanks. The end result of our efforts is clearly evident in the pride of ownership shown by our customer base, and in the lasting value of their investment.


Glacier Bay boats is committed to excellence: safety, stability and quality. Our "cats" provide the perfect platform for family fun and fishing freedom!


At Glacier Bay boats the conviction to this goal is held in high esteem by its employees, its management and its ownership. This ideal is then additionally passed on, to challenge our suppliers to constantly meet or beat our high level of commitment in their products. This is the basis by which Glacier Bay boats conducts business. This business ethic carries right through to the support of our international dealer body and is also why our catamarans inspire such a high level of confidence and satisfaction with our customers.


I invite you to share the adventure of Glacier Bay boat ownership.


USEABILITY

Get all the details right, from the trailer fitting, to the helm controls and electronics with easy accessibility to all features. Make cleaning simple, install comfortable seats and build lots of storage.


DESIGN & SERVICEABILITY

Make boating more fun! Remove problems and events that spoil, delay or frustrate our owners. Listen to owners' needs and goals while designing and giving them more that they expect in the final product...more innovation, more style and more function make access to all the boat's systems natural, easy and built-in from the factory.


QUALITY CONSTRUCTION

Build the boat right from the start with the best, most practical, long-life components available. Build the boat so both owner and builder are proud of the boat 2... 4...10 years after delivery.


TWO-THIRDS LESS IMPACT

Accelerometer testing shows Glacier Bay catamarans achieve a 60 percent reduction in peak impact loads when crossing a three-foot, boat wake at 27 knots (31 mph). Glacier Bay boat owners experience about two-thirds less impact than on a monohull. The jarring and slamming common to v-hulls is eliminated!


The test compared two 26 foot boats: a Glacier Bay 2660 Canyon Runner Center Console and an identically weighted, high-quality, 24 degree, deep-V, center console. In simultaneous tests with the catamaran and monohull, the Glacier Bay boat achieved a 60 percent reduction in impact loads. The readings were taken while the two boats crossed head-on into the 36-inch wake of a 40-foot motor yacht at 27 knots. Reading were taken with a three-axis accelerometer, sampling a rate of 50,000 times per minute. the graphs are an electronic summation of the tree measurement axis X-Y-Z (vertical, side-to-side and front-to-back). they show what the human body actually feels with each impact.