With the second thought in mind, I stopped by the Falcon Boats factory in Titusville on Friday, August 29, 2025. Falcon builds several semi-customizable center console style powered catamarans. When I arrived at the Falcon factory, I was greeted by Matt, the owner/chief engineer, and Matt's wife who runs the office. Something about them made me feel confident that anyone doing business with them will have a great experience.
As we began our walk through the Falcon facility, Matt explained how his business began and how it had expanded into making catamarans. At first, he made prototype parts like hoods and fenders from fiberglass. Then the business expanded into making fiberglass parts for boat brands that we have all heard of. Finally, the business expanded into making powered catamarans with hulls designed by Morelli and Melvin, a firm that designed the hulls of Invincible catamarans.
What immediately struck me about the Falcon facility was how clean and organized it was. This makes me think that the workers at Falcon pay a lot of attention to detail when building boats.
The Falcon F26, the boat I wanted to see most, is the latest and largest boat to be produced by Falcon. Like the other Falcon boats, the boat is made with vacuum infused resin, which results in the optimal ratio of fiberglass to resin in the hull. These hulls also tend to be lighter, stiffer, and stronger than they would otherwise be. The hull of the F26 is a plaining hull. The hulls on Worldcat Catamarans are semi-displacement hulls.
The F26 has four huge in-floor fish boxes, plus two smaller storage boxes in the bow seats. On my best days fishing, I would have difficulty filling just one of the in-floor fish boxes. Nonetheless, I am an optimist and would have plenty of ice in two of them. The other two in-floor fish boxes would have sufficient space for my fishing buddies who always bring too much stuff. The hatches on the fish boxes are fully finished on their undersides which should make them easy to keep clean.
The console of the F26 must have been designed by someone who understands how frustrating it is to deal with wiring issues in hard-to-reach places. This frustration has resulted in a console front that is hinged to open to provide easy access to the boat’s wiring and to the rear of all helm-mounted electronics.
The rear seat, with room for three adults, is a couch-like seat that curves out to the stern. The curvature of the seating increases the open deck space behind the helm seats. The stern of the boat is laid out much like Worldcat Catamarans. There is a swim platform between the engines with a swim ladder that is magnetically secured to the platform while the boat is underway.
The console of the F26 is small compared to consoles on similarly-sized monohulls. Consoles on monohulls can make use of the space below the deck, but very little below deck space exists above the tunnel running down the center of a cat. However, there is just enough headroom in the F26 console for a porta-potti if you need one during those offshore runs. (PUN intended!)
One of the things that I love about my current boat, a 2022 Cobia 240CC, is its full-height windshield. The full windshield makes the ride much quieter than the ride on my old bay boat with a half-windshield. The full windshield also keeps me drier on choppy windy days. Because the F26 is a semi-customizable boat, I understand that there may be several windshield options, but the one I might like best is the three-quarter windshield like the one on the demo boat.
Another thing that I love about my current boat is that the rear bench seat lifts up to provide easy access to the bilge--the bilge pump, livewell pump, fuel-water separators, etc. I can crawl into the bilge area of my Cobia. The F26 does not provide quite as easy access to the bilge areas, but several large hatches should make maintenance of anything in the bilges relatively easy.
Although Matt was ready to take me on a sea trial with the F26, circumstances prevented me from doing that. I hope to schedule a sea trial in the near future when the seas are sloppy. Catamaran hulls are touted as being fuel efficient and as having smooth rides through choppy seas. Smoothness comes from the sharp entry of the hulls and from the air cushion that builds up between the hulls as a catamaran increases in speed.
If you are like me and are trying to decide if you need a bigger, better, faster boat, you might want to check out Falcon Boats. Here's a link to the Falcon Boats website: https://www.falconboatsusa.com/.
See more pictures and a video from my visit here https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOJLFXt ... ocW1paQ==
