The innovations we find on our cruising multihulls have three main sources: industrial progress, the influence of luxury boats, but above all, the techniques tested in competition. What are the technological advances developed for racing which have drastically changed our daily life as sailors? What are the ones which haven’t found their place aboard? And what will the Gabarts and Covilles bring aboard our boats tomorrow?
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Publié le
22/01/2018
Par
Norbert Conchin
Numéro :
158
Parution :
Mar.
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Apr.
2018
It’s hard to separate the racing world from the fantastic progress of cruising multihulls since 1960; we could even be tempted to say that the catamaran is completely derived from racing. Everything began in England, where the Prout brothers, after having perfected one of the first sport catamarans, the 'Shearwater', a precursor of the first ocean racing multihulls, built the 'Snowgoose', a 37-foot cruising catamaran, which became the first production multihull with more than 500 examples built in its 40-year career. Then at the beginning of the 80s, while catamaran production was almost non-e…
