– Andaman 50 - by Catathai –
A matter of timing has brought about this new design – the Catathai Andaman 50. Fast, light, no comforts missing aboard, a dagger-board, performance ocean cruising catamaran.
– Andaman 50 - by Catathai –
A matter of timing has brought about this new design – the Catathai Andaman 50. Fast, light, no comforts missing aboard, a dagger-board, performance ocean cruising catamaran.
– Off-the-shelf Downwind Sails for the Multihull Sailor –
For many years when the multihull sailor needed a downwind sail the immediate thought was to have a Symmetrical Spinnaker made to suit. It was often a time-consuming, expensive process, necessitating lots of additional gear including sheets, braces, tweakers and so on. Further, it was complex to use for the majority of cruising sailors, in most cases flying the tack off the windward bow or even with a spinnaker pole. And its use was generally restricted to wind angles of around 130-180°.
– Why Race Your Cruising Cat? –
About 26 years ago I wrote an article about how to cruise on your racing cat. The times they are a changing … Not all multihulls are designed for speed or competitiveness. If your catamaran has the comforts of home, lots of space and a gentle character at sea then why bother racing? It may not be designed to sail very well into the wind. Lack of daggerboards will do that. Sometimes no matter how hard you trim the headsail and adjust the mainsail foot the tell tails on your sails might never flow smoothly. That is if you have telltails. And it just doesn’t seem right to run fresh water into the salty sea to lighten the payload by a few hundred kilograms just to go a tenth of a knot faster.
– Onboard a Longreach Power Catamaran –
Reach Further, Stay Longer
Introducing the new range of power catamarans designed and built for cruising Australia and beyond.
– Cat Not Dog part II –
In the second of a two-part enquiry, Alex Stone continues with the main considerations to be taken into account when buying a modern cruising multihull.
Only a handful of these Ultims exist, so the Fastnet in August 2019 was an exciting clash between four of them. Image Fastnet Race Media
Multihulls will lead the world’s largest and most diverse offshore fleet from England during the Rolex Fastnet Race, reports KEVIN GREEN.
The latest addition to the Aquila shipyard, the 54, is aimed at both the ocean cruising market and the luxury yacht market. A development that seems logical for this major player in the power catamaran market.
In a two-part article, Alex Stone looks at the main considerations to be taken into account when buying a cruising catamaran.
– Where Great Begins! –
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.
– Outremer 55 - White Stallion of the Sea –
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.
– Lightning and Lockdown –
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.
– Lagoon 55 - Curvaceous Cat –
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.
– Excess II - Compact Cruiser –
The Australian debut of the new Excess range is a smart reaction to the burgeoning catamaran cruising market, reports Kevin Green.
– Stay Calm –
Stay Calm coming back into Rainbow Beach.
Twenty-twenty has been a year of change for most. A year of highs and lows, doubt and stress amongst extraordinary moments, both personal to each and shared by all. We went into the year with our first baby on the way. A beautiful girl. Little did we anticipate that she wouldn’t be the only lady to join our family that year. Having always talked of buying a boat to sail, a few months after our daughter’s birth we found ourselves looking at boats. We had little experience but a great desire for adventure, buckets of enthusiasm, a great deal of foolishness, a willingness to learn and just enough confidence to think we could buy a boat and just learn to sail.
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