From a distance, you would think it was a monohull with two floats grafted onto it...Of course it is nothing like that as far as the particularly slim hulls are concerned. This André Allegre design, which was very innovative at the end of the 70s, remains an attractive support for cruising.
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Allegro obviously makes you think of a fast, joyous, lively and jaunty tempo...it’s also a reference to its designer, Andr Allegre, who died recently. This colossus, a real multihull pioneer, was the designer of Pen Duick VI, renamed Manureva. A real ‘monsieur’! Granted, it disappeared with its skipper Alain Colas during the first Route du Rhum in 1978... But previously, it had completed a round-the-world trip singlehanded via Cape Horn and won the Transat in 1972. The Allegro, launched in 1976, is also very innovative: whilst below the waterline the hulls are U-shaped, very slim on the water…
