Cat Not Dog
In a two-part article, Alex Stone looks at the main considerations to be taken into account when buying a cruising catamaran.
In a two-part article, Alex Stone looks at the main considerations to be taken into account when buying a cruising catamaran.
Self-confessed reef addicts, Chris and Wade on Anui, have spent an extended time in the southernmost part of the Great Barrier Reef and declare “this is where Great begins” in more ways than one.
When the Outremer design team sat down to brainstorm their next performance cruising catamaran concept, they didn’t have to turn far for inspiration. With a 35 year history building high performance cruising catamarans and winner three times for European Boat of the Year for their Outremer 49, Outremer 5X and Outremer 4X, performance and cruising is part of their DNA. But look outside their window at the Gunboat shipyard, owned by the same parent company Grand Large Yachting, one of the most iconic high performance catamarans of our generation rolls off the production line, the Gunboat 68.
If you sail offshore for long enough, go enough places and explore your boundaries and limits with wind and sea conditions, you are likely to have a few disasters strike. I had thought most had happened to me. Until Boxing Day in Cairns. At the time Whim was nestled safely on her jetty.
The Lagoon 55 promises to be a comfortable long-range cruising yacht. Image Lagoon
Curvaceous and vastly spacious, the newly launched Lagoon 55 is a quiet evolution o this cruising marque, reports Kevin Green.
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