Vote for your favorite multihulls! A record attempt for crossing the English Channel on catamaran that’s only 15 feet!
Article published on 19/10/2019
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Bavarian Ernst-Michael Miller, designer of the small hydrofoil catamaran, the iFly 15, has had his mind set on it since the beginning of September. He wanted to prove his boat could not only sail offshore, but also at high speed, so he entrusted his baby to two professionals, 39-year-old Yo Wiebel and 21-year-old Tamara Baumann, with a simple and ambitious plan: to beat the Channel crossing record between Cowes and Dinard in the under-20-foot class.
The time to beat (19 hours and 42 minutes) over this 140-mile course was set by Yvan and his son Mathis a little over a year ago, aboard a Nacra F20. The small iFly, equipped with a wing mast and a gennaker for the occasion, kept her promises over the first three quarters of the course before the wind let started to let them down...
Hopefully the next attempt will be the one!
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