if you can drive a sailing yacht you can drive a motor yacht!!!!

[Pete7]

Agreed, the step from yacht to mobo is no more difficult than say moving up from 24 ft stern drive mobo to 40 ft twin engined gin palace. Training on your new pride a joy a good idea though. The easy bit is going the other way suddenly you can carve a nice final turn into the pontoon without having the bows blow off if a butterfly beats its wings.

Pete

 

[MJT]

As another ex-raggie cat. liveaboard, I entirely agree with Hurricane and yourself. One engine in each hull of a sailing cat. gives very similar handling to my two shaft drives - although in windy conditions my baby Nelson sits in the water much better. My cat was a bit more like a flybridge cruiser when going stern-to in a strong cross wind...

 

[scottie]

I think that most people who have used a variety of boats would be able adapt either way fairly quickly to be able make a short trip in easy conditions with short basic training.
Having been in and out of boats all my life I would try anything once for the experience.
However the two most outstanding messes were inverting a topper because the boom caught in the collar of my life jacket and the feeling of utter despair at trying to berth a 50ft flybridge with a mean cross wind.