The Story, The People
In 1985, two sailing enthusiasts and an investor set themselves a challenge: to publish a magazine specifically about multihulls. 40 years and 200 issues later, the story of Multihulls World - and so that of Multicoques Mag - is being retold.
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Publié le
30/01/2025
Par
Emmanuel van Deth
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200
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2025
The summer of 1984. Two members of France’s Union Nationale des Multicoques (National Multihulls association) were writing the association’s latest newsletter. André Manchon was the owner of a Tornado, and Gilles Abeloos of a Victress 40 - Piver design. They we’re almost done, when Gilles suggested to André that they ought to set up a more professional publication, along the lines of the British magazine Multihulls International, or the American Multihulls. The project started to take shape: an agreement was reached with UNM to take on the title Multicoques Magazine, and the pair were supporte…
