The Multihull Company will show the Catana 50 (Cruising World as Boat of the Year 2008) at the Newport International Boat Show held in Newport, Rhode Island from September 11th to the 14th. The show is open from 10 AM to 6 PM on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday and from 10 AM to 5 PM on Sunday. Phillip Berman, Tom Kintz, and Derek Escher, our new Fractional Sales and Charter Manager, will be available to answer questions and help you find the catamaran that best suits your needs. The Catana 50 will be located at Gate 8, Dock N-5 on the East side of The Mooring Restaurant in the Multihull Lagoon. We look forward to seeing you there. If you would like to speak to one of our agents, feel free to call Phillip Berman at 215.508.2704, Derek Escher at 617.803.8976, or Tom Kintz at 860.572.7767.

The Multihull Company represents Catana from France, Dean from South Africa, Dolphin from Brazil, and the Sea-Tribe from South Africa. Catana is continuing their line of Catana 50’s and 52’s but are introducing the 41’ and 47’ performance cruising catamarans this year. Dean builds the popular cruising Dean 441 and the Jag Powercat. Dolphin is introducing a new model of the Dolphin 460 with exquisite South Amercan crafted woodwork and 5” additional headroom. The Sea-Tribe 870 is 28’ of catamaran designed for speed and the single handed sailor. Please visit our website at www.multihullcompany.com for additional information including specifications and layouts of all the new multihulls available.

Matthew Dunning of The Multihull Company Seattle Office will be exhibiting at the 2008 Lake Union Boats Afloat Show September 10th -14th. The Boats Afloat Show is located in Seattle at the South end of Lake Union on Chandler's Cove.  Show hours are from 10am to 6pm daily.  This is the largest on-water boat show on the West Coast with hundreds of boats and exhibits as well as an opportunity to tour vessels from the Emmy nominated television show The Deadliest Catch.  Come view The Multihull Company's worldwide brokerage offerings for catamarans and trimarans.  Learn about the new range of Catana, Dolphin, Dean, Arrow Cat and Sea Tribe catamarans.  Matthew can answer all of your multihull questions. If you would like to make an appointment or just chat with Matt, he can be reached at the office at 206.297.1151 or on his cell at 206.255.7718

Derek Escher brings experience and passion to our multihull specific brokerage. He will be introducing our Fractional Sales and Charter Programs at the Annapolis Boat Show in October. He is focused on matching clients with the right boat based on their requirements and is equally comfortable as a buyer’s broker or as a listing agent. Formerly with Gunboat Multihulls and Alden Yachts, Derek has over twenty years of sailboat and watersports sales experience. His passion for multihull sailing, racing, windsurfing, and teaching makes it easy for him to share with others. He is the former owner and charter captain of Katimavik Adventure Charters aboard a 48' catamaran in the Grenadine Islands of the West Indies. Derek holds U.S. National titles in windsurfing and windsurfing speed sailing, as well as many regional windsurfing titles. He has been aboard and sailed on virtually every brand of cruising cat out there. Please call Derek at the Tiverton, Rhode Island Office, at 617.803.8976.

By now most monohull sailors have chartered a catamaran in the Caribbean or the Mediterranean and have come to appreciate the many virtues cats have to offer for cruising, including stable sailing with fewer seasick guests, faster off wind speeds, little or no rocking at anchor, a large aft cockpit for lounging and dining, privacy for each guest in suites that are far apart, and galley up cooking in a saloon bathed with light. Yet these traditional monohull sailors, while appreciative of the catamaran's strengths, also come back from their charter experience with the same legitimate complaint-these boats sure don't point very well and off-the-wind they steer like trucks.

For those converting from a power yacht to a sailing catamaran (and there are many these days) pointing ability and helm feel really mean little to them. They order their catamaran with large engines and just toss in the towel when the wind is on the nose. But for those who intend on serious blue water passage making where beating for days on end is inevitable, or for those who are simply passionate about sailing, this lack of upwind performance and steering stiffness is downright aggravating.

For the most part, there are only four things you can do to greatly improve the upwind performance of cats beyond making them super light, lean and long: Click here to find out!

The annual Annapolis Boat Show is right around the corner so mark your calendars and make reservations now! The show opens on October 9th and runs through the 13th. Look for The Multihull Company red and white tent on Dock C. On display in the water will be a 2007 Catana 50 and a 2007 Dolphin 460. Phillip Berman, Alexis de Boucaud and Darrel McDaniel of the Florida Office, Derek Escher and Tom Kintz from the Northeast Offices, and Matthew Dunning of the Seattle Office will be on hand to answer your questions. As always, we will have a display of our brokerage multihulls. Don’t forget to include our informational seminars in your schedule. More details will follow in our next newsletter. If you have any questions about the show, please feel free to call the Philadelphia Corporate Offices at: 215.508.2704.

Party with The Multihull Company at the Annapolis Boat Show at our Catana and Dolphin owners party on Friday, October 10th. Just look for the red and white tent on Dock C. Food and libations will be served. What a great chance to meet fellow Catana and Dolphin owners and to share insights and adventures. More details to follow in the Annapolis Boat Show Newsletter.

On Saturday, October 11th, meet Cruising World writers, Tom and Harriet Linsky,  at the “Hands Across the Sea Jump Up” to learn all about the Hands Across the Sea team. See their Dolphin 460, and learn about their non-profit organization that sails to provide educational materials to schools that need a helping hand. So far they’ve travelled from Brazil through the Caribbean and all the way to Maine. Get the real scoop by reading the “hands log” newsletter by following this link…
www.handsacrossthesea.net/HandsJumpUp.htm

By Tom Linskey, Hands Across the Sea
Featured in the Summer 2008 edition of the North Sails E-Newsletter

Has the 150% genoa, long a staple of PHRF and beer-can racing, been banished by cruisers? It certainly has on Hands Across the Sea (left), the new 46-foot Dolphin 460 catamaran that Tom & Harriet Linskey are bluewater cruising full-time. The venerable 150 has been ably replaced by a Marathon 3DL® Solent Self-Tacking jib. After cruising 6,300 breezy miles from Brazil through the Caribbean and up to New England aboard Hands, they couldn’t be happier with the easy handling of the sail and the all-around performance it’s given their boat. Click here to read full story...

The Multihull Company is devoted to an international clientele of multihull buyers and sellers. We have a long list of brokerage multihulls located in all four corners of the world from Hong Kong to Ohio, ranging in size from 24’ to 89’. Each listing is nurtured until we find the right buyer to continue the journey. The yachts listed below represent an assortment of the most recent additions. There is no better way to learn the current market, the idiosyncrasies of each multihull brand, the equipment and sails that prevail, and gather interior design ideas while shopping, than to look at the new and used brokerage multihulls listed in our website. We also have added an unbelievable number of articles to address questions and concerns for multihull owners, buyers, and sellers. Please join us at www.multihullcompany.com.