Sailing thousands of miles and living on board for months (or even years), generally means you’ll be customizing, preparing, modifying and personalizing your multihull. Modifications that aren’t ...

Whether its wintering, a long stopover or you’re putting your boat up for sale, these are all excellent reasons to store your canvas away in the right place... until the time comes to set sail ...

Your dinghy’s outboard motor deserves as much attention and care as the main engines aboard your multihull: transferring crew in an anchorage or discovering the shoreline are things to be done in ...

Sail workshop Temporary repairs (before a visit to the sailmaker)

Even before you hoist the sails, you rely on your engine(s) to get your multihull out on the water. If you want your diesels to purr perfectly, their maintenance is essential. Here is a detailed ...

Saildrive legs warrant as much attention as the engines themselves. The minimal maintenance is very easy to do when you’re hauled out for bottom paint. Sometimes, saildrives can incur damage and you ...

The Multihulls World match is an open forum, a space for freedom of opinion open to players in leisure sailing on more than one hull. With this column, comparisons don’t mean anyone is right, they ...

On most of our cruising multihulls, the first reef is taken in around 20 knots of true wind. A robust, rather heavy, and quite under-canvassed catamaran can in reality stand sailing ...

The Parasailor? It’s a symmetrical spinnaker whose central part forms a paraglider. Particularly efficient and stable in any sudden wind, this is the sail of choice for transatlantic crossings… ...

Having chilled (and fresh) water at one’s disposal is a dream for long distance cruising and a lot less weight on board for speed freaks. Although many multihulls, including in charter fleets, are ...