The multihull island
It’s a country! What am I saying? No, it’s an island, a continent! Seen from old Europe or the United States, it seems to be a homeland for multihulls. But what is it really? And where does such an attraction for two or three-hulled units come from? Between historical and geographical reasons, Multihulls World conducted the investigation. Above all, we discovered sailors, naval architects, boatbuilders - all of them passionate about it. It’s winter right now in the northern hemisphere, so welcome to the other side of the equator and summer in the great outdoors. We’ll take you on a journey of discovery to Australia.
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Publié le
25/01/2021
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Ancestors of our proas I would have liked to tell you that the first Australians arrived by sea in proas, but this isn’t the case. They arrived from South East Asia, on foot, at the end of the last ice age. In 50,000 BCE, the land had less than a million inhabitants. A drop of about 500 feet (150 m) in the level allowed the first humans from Africa, present on the edge of what is today the Gulf of Thailand, to continue their conquest eastward. They were able, on dry land, to populate Indonesia, New Guinea and then Australia. Indeed, at the time, the whole lot formed only one continent, named S…
