Celebrating our issue #200!

Following the famous issue 0 sent to numerous potential readers and professionals, the fledgling editorial team received many letters in English. US advertisers began showing an interest in the magazine. From issue 1 onwards, this correspondence was published. This desire to open up internationally was confirmed in MM n°18: the editorial team published their first English Digest. The idea of actually publishing the magazine in English was in the air. But they still needed to find the right translators, specialized in the field of boating, and to weave a network of correspondents all over the world... This was done by June/July 1990 and Multicoques Mag #29 was translated into English, and the title Multihulls World was launched. This 29-edition gap continues to this day. On the occasion of the 100th and 200th editions, we looked into making up for this anomaly by “jumping” 29 issues. But unfortunately, the press commission won’t allow such an undertaking...

International Magazine

From then on, Multicoques Mag was no longer simply Franco-French. Its content, identical to the English-language version, had to include news from all over the world. And this is why the editorial team don’t hesitate to travel to major sailing events such as the Düsseldorf show in Germany, METS in Amsterdam, but also Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Annapolis in the United States. At the beginning of the 1990s, the presence of multihulls at shows was still a timid affair, but they were an opportunity to discover new models and test them. While many of our articles are written in French and then translated, more and more copy is being received in English - a guarantee of a greater diversity of points of view and culture. Today, our willingness to feature sailing areas and multihull production around the world is still the same, and ...