Multihulls World n° 155

Boat Shows
All the boats to discover and those you mustn’t miss

"I went from motorboating to sailing a cat!"

CRUISING
10,000 nautical miles in 9 months on a charter boat

CHARTER
The Gulf of Thailand

VOYAGING
- Readers’ spots
- Dream anchorages: Baly Bay – Madagascar
- Chronicle of a family around the world: The Louisiades, an archipelago at the ends of the Earth

ON TEST
Fountaine Pajot Saona 47
SwissCat S48
Sunreef 74
Secondhand test: Highland 35

PRACTICAL
Catamaran basics: fire safety!
Diagnostics: on-board power

FEATURES
Downwind
The editor’s favorite
Through the eye of the photographer
Flash Info
Equipment
News from the builders
MultiYachts
Multihulls Match: should you wrap or paint your hull?
Postcards
Classified ads

From The Editor

 Welcome to the all-new Multihulls World…

First published back in the summer of 1985, Multihulls World is celebrating its thirty-second birthday this year. A good length of time in both the press and the boating worlds, both of which have been in a state of constant change for many years. There’s a vivacity that we owe in large part to you, dear readers, always so faithful who, year after year, continue to follow us.  Then sometimes, you leave when it’s your turn to go around the world, and then it’s us following your adventures on our pages... Multihulls World remains above all a record of stories and passions: "the magazine complicit in the dreams of its readers", as we proudly announce on the cover of this new-format edition.

Just like the boatbuilders, who love to surprise us with new designs at this time of year, we wanted to take advantage of boat show season to offer you our new vision of our (your) magazine.

New features, new contributors, but also a new format and a new layout, to offer you - as with our new website and our app specifically for reading the digital edition - more information, more advice but also more pleasure and conviviality.

This new format is like setting out on a long passage: not just a promise of new horizons, but also of adventures, meeting people, and above all, of the many pleasures to be shared.

Enjoy reading, and we’ll see you at the fall boat shows!

JC Guillaumin
Editor

• Articles

  • 10,000 miles in 9 months on a chartered catamaran
  • 42. Protecting a multihull: vinyl wrap or paint?
  • 64. Baly Bay - Madagascar
  • 73. 2017 - Boat Shows: what you mustn’t miss
  • 82. I went from a motorboat to a sailing cat!

• Practical

  • 66. Fighting fire aboard
  • 68. Unlimited energy
  • 80. A practical guide, so you don’t miss anything at the coming main boat shows

• Postcards

  • Kingdom of Tonga
  • The Louisiades, an archipelago at the other end of the world… (Part 2) An Unpleasant Activity…
  • 52. Bonobo… From the Marquesas Islands
  • 52. Kallima in the Marquesas: or the trials and tribulations of dealing with an often complicated Internet.
  • 52. Tao: The Gardens of the Queen
  • 52. Zelma: “Boat buddies”
  • 52. Zen Roots: or the story of an Iroquois that just wants to be loved…
  • 60. READERS’ SPOTS

• Tests

  • Fountaine Pajot Saona 47 - Showing the future of the range?
  • Highland 35 - The all-purpose power catamaran by Fountaine Pajot
  • Sunreef 74 -19th Hole - Luxury for blue water or charter
  • Swiss Cat S48 - A bespoke epoxy catamaran

• Destinations

  • From Koh Samui to Ang Thong National Park, the magic of the Gulf of Thailand.