You want to leave for a long trip towards the warm seas, but you don’t want a boat which is too big to handle and maintain? Then the choice of a 40-footer will prove to be sensible. Big enough to take your family across oceans, these catamarans are comfortable and above all easy to handle, even short-handed. So, shall we embark?
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Publié le
22/05/2018
Par
Mark Bernie
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160
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For a long time, the most-used long-term cruising boat - at least in multihulls - was a catamaran of more or less 40 feet. The most emblematic of these ocean cruising boats being the Prout Snowgoose. In the anchorages around the world, we also found the Outremers (38 and 40), the famous Edel Cat 35, the Louisiane, Fidji and Athena from Fountain Pajot, the Lagoon 37 then 380, the Catanas (381 – 39 – 40), the Privilege 12 and 37, as well as the Kennex 380s, Azulis and Escale 39s… Boats which are as different as is possible, all created before the year 2000, but all capable of taking (and above a…