Wolfgang Koch is passionate about anything that sails on two or three hulls. For a long time, he was president of the German cruising catamaran association, but it was in Switzerland that he discovered the Ocean Youth Sailing project: the building of Vellamo, an Arrow 1360 catamaran, designed for amateur construction. Here he gives us his first impressions of the boat under sail.
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Test location: Bottighofen, Lake Constance, Switzerland Weather conditions: 5 to 10 knots of wind. Calm. I got the chance to sail Vellamo alongside the men and women involved in building the boat. I’d been invited to come to Bottighofen, Switzerland, on lake Constance. The arrival of the catamaran in port, coming back in from another seatrial in the morning, was very unusual. Driven by the two electric motors, there was no smell of diesel, nor exhaust fumes to see as the boat glided alongside! The docking maneuver was very elegant and smooth, typical for a twin-engined catamaran, even though t…
