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John John Florence: The surfing sailor

  • May 11, 2021

Some folk seem to have it all. At 28, John John Florence has already enjoyed…

Sailing La Vagabonde explain their multihull criteria

  • February 12, 2021

Over the last seven years Riley Whitelum and Elayna Carausu have advanced from novice sailors…

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Marc van Peteghem interview: Up close and personal with the king of cats

  • May 21, 2020

With Lagoon catamarans at one end of the spectrum and world-girdling Ultime class trimarans at…

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Sardinia charter: Living the high life on a crewed Lagoon 620

  • September 11, 2019

Beam. Or beam and volume. Those are the dominant characteristics that spring to mind about…

Transatlantic in a catamaran – from Reykjavik to Newfoundland via Prince Christian Sound Greenland

  • April 7, 2017

Safely aboard in Reykjavik, about to depart for Greenland some 600 cold, grey miles away,…

Design guru Gino Morelli on the latest multihulls – “We’re like the Wright brothers”

  • March 10, 2017

Gino Morelli and Pete Melvin, more commonly known as Morelli & Melvin, are at the…

Gunboat 68

Gunboat 68 – the high octane luxury performance cruiser designed by VPLP

  • February 15, 2017

When Gunboat, the US company that created the luxury super-fast carbon catamaran range, went into…

MOD70 Maserati: Giovanni Soldini on the benefits of the ‘Manta’ foil on his ocean-racing trimaran

  • November 11, 2016

Italian ocean racing legend Giovanni Soldini – the man who rescued Isabelle Autissier from her…

Catamaran Sailing Techniques: Everything you need to know

  • May 16, 2016

The attraction of sailing a boat that offers the vast living space found on a…

Catamaran Sailing Techniques Part 2: Handling under power – with Nigel Irens

  • April 5, 2016

As you may be one day, we were new to the catamaran we were offered…

Millbrook – home of the British multihull is up a creek in Cornwall

  • March 16, 2016

The estuaries and rivers that probe into the green hills of Devon and Cornwall’s south…

Catamaran Sailing Techniques Part 3: Anchoring and picking up a mooring – with Nigel Irens

  • February 17, 2016

Among the plus sides of cruising in a catamaran is that inherent shallow draught offers…

Catamaran Sailing Techniques Part 4: Sailing a cat upwind – with Nigel Irens

  • January 12, 2016

If you were a visitor to Earth and found yourself sailing a run-of-the-mill cruising catamaran…

Catamaran Sailing Techniques Part 5: sailing a cat downwind – with Nigel Irens

  • December 12, 2015

Generally speaking, the risk of getting into trouble in a catamaran when sailing downwind is…

Catamaran Sailing Techniques Part 6: Coping with heavy weather – with Nigel Irens

  • November 10, 2015

When discussing how to handle heavy weather in a catamaran we have to accept that…

Catamaran Sailing Techniques Part 7: should the worst happen – with Nigel Irens

  • October 1, 2015

Different strategies for keeping a catamaran safe from the risk of capsize have been discussed…

Catamaran Sailing Techniques Part 8: the future of catamaran cruising – with Nigel Irens

  • September 16, 2015

Most of the features in our Catamaran Sailing Techniques series have been aimed at aspiring…

Why multihulls are becoming ever more popular for cruising

  • September 2, 2015

“Actually, there’s an awful lot of space on offer, isn’t there?” you might say after…

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