World premiere at boot Düsseldorf

While boot Düsseldorf, the world’s largest indoor boat show, might not be bursting at the seams with sail-cruising multihulls, the 2025 edition of the event is nonetheless the setting for an unmissable preview - we’re talking about the Dragonfly 36!

A Second New Sailing Model for Cannes 2025
 

Fountaine Pajot has already unveiled its forthcoming 41-foot catamaran that’s to replace the Isla 40... but there’s more on the way! The yard has just announced, direct from Düsseldorf, that two models are due to be unveiled at the Cannes Yachting Festival in September...

A Third Model in the M-Line Range

With the announcement of the M7 at boot Düsseldorf, the M-Line now includes three power catamarans...

25 Years of Aventura Catamarans!

Founded in 2000 in Marans (near La Rochelle, France), the Aventura Catamarans brand was created by Eric Roger and his son Romain following the takeover of Go Marine, which manufactured small sport catamarans...

Boat Review Teaser

First presented at the 2023 Cannes Yachting Festival, the Thíra 80 marks Fountaine Pajot’s entry into the world of multiyachts - a first (even though the overall length is actually 78 feet and 8 inches), as up until now, the largest model in the catalog has been the Alegria 67 - and of course its motor version, the Power 67...

The west coast of Greenland on a Hobie Cat
 

If sailing a sports catamaran is usually understood as a summer practice along warm sandy beaches, Dominique Bleichner and Paola Beneton, two lovers of the great outdoors, opened other horizons for us with their raid on a Hobie Cat Tiger among the icebergs on the west coast of Greenland. A 2-month journey spanning almost a thousand nautical miles from Nuuk, the capital, northward with stops at more than 10 villages. An extreme navigation on a small open sailing boat with no cabin that brought them in contact with Nature and the Greenlanders...

Can Yvan Bourgnon Do It (Again)?

Presented as a scoop, the project to complete the famous Globe Challenge in a multihull has actually been on the Franco-Swiss yachtsman’s mind for some time now, with the idea having reported in these columns back in... 2018. But that doesn’t matter to us: the challenge is so crazy that we’re happy to talk about it again! 

More Participants than ever... and More Multihulls!

Conceived in 2013 to ease the pressure on the traditional ARC, which has been taking sailors across the Atlantic from East to West since 1986, the ARC+ has become increasingly popular thanks to its stopover in Mindelo, Cape Verde... 

A New Range of Three Aluminum Foiling Catamarans

Bering Yachts began operations in 2007 under the aegis of Alexei Mikhailov, in Foshan, China, though the company moved to Turkey in 2017. It stands out from other manufacturers for its perfect mastery of steel, a material typically reserved for very large yachts and Dutch riverboats...

A Weekender that’s Thinking Big!

The second model in the Coupe range stands out from the usual power catamaran weekenders in that it is much larger - this segment of the market typically ranges from 36 to 42 feet...

Worldwide Calendar 2025

Times are getting tougher for shows that are far from the sea - witness the cancellation of Nautic en Seine, the event that was to replace the Paris Boat Show. But when it comes to the indoor shows, nothing is going better than the last of the dinosaurs, the famous boot Düsseldorf, that’s not doing so badly this year, as it retains its 16 exhibition halls. In the absence of Paris and co., boatbuilders and equipment manufacturers are keeping the German event going for the time being...