NEEL 65

A trimaran with a winning formula for interior space

Neel Trimarans is a young French company which broke new ground in 2009 with a prototype 50 footer and then managed to establish their 45 in a world where the catamaran occupies a predominant position. Now there’s a new challenge. Neel have just launched a 65 foot trimaran, shown for the first time at Cannes Boat Show. We took a trip on board in early June for an amazing test sail.

You can clearly see the deck area and interior volume linked to this innovative geometry

Despite its size and significant windage forward, the Neel 65 is an agile boat with fine-entry bows and good clearance between the floats

A wide boat on the wide-open ocean

Moderately canvassed, this big trimaran remains easy to handle when short-handed

A gallery from which to see the most beautiful cruising grounds

The double helm station and sail trimming console

A superlative aft deck

The nav station separates the two salons

The two suites benefit from unique viewpoints, giving a new approach

The forward cabin also invents a new living space

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Builder : Neel Trimarans
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Éric Bruneel and Neel Trimarans

The founder of Neel Trimarans is an experienced sailor and businessman. Having become the French sports catamaran champion in 1987, a specialist in Class C, he started at Fountaine-Pajot and launched the Corneel 26. A French development, blending the American Stiletto and the Danish Mycat, this little cat was a combining of the cruising cat and the sports cat, and an efficient and playful little machine which introduced the concept to many future multihull enthusiasts. Following this commercial success, over the next 25 years Eric reinforced the development of the yard, being in charge of exports, and then becoming Vice Director-General. He took a bit of a step back in the early 2000s to get involved with the new M50 class at the helm of his Trilogic, in which he won The Transat in 2004 and came second in the 2006 Route du Rhum, before launching himself into the adventure that is Neel Trimarans.

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A pioneering and structural architectural concept

The production of a full set of molds confirmed the yard’s determination that they hadn’t designed this 19.8 meter trimaran as a prototype, but as a semi-custom production model. The vacuum...

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