Posted: 26th April 2012. Article by: Multihulls World. Fed up with living heeled over? Want to live a unique adventure by taking your family on a boat for the first time? No possible doubt, it’s time to change to a catamaran… You want to sail as a family. Nothing better than a catamaran for family [...]

Posted: 11th January 2012. This informative article outlines why one multihull owner chose the Fountaine Pajot Mahe 36 Evolution after much research. Read on to gain his first hand knowledge and findings and the reasons why he chose this catamaran over its competitors. Written by Geoffrey Chia – owner of Fountaine Pajot Mahe 36 Evolution. [...]

Posted: 4th January 2012. By: Jacques Armenante (owner Fountaine Pajot Lavezzi 40). For a while now I had been looking at a way to replicate what I have on my laptop (Maxsea V 12.1) on a remote monitor that I could install at the helm. Monitors are VERY expensive and require a fair amount of [...]

Posted: 16th December 2011 By: Jacques Armenante (owner Fountaine Pajot Lavezzi 40) I have found a cheap way in the DIY mode to increase bench space in the Galley of our Lavezzi . Follow these 4 easy steps: Purchase two Lazy Susan from IKEA , you will find that the diameter matches the outside rim [...]

Life with Style – charter boat article – By Mark O’Donoghue When is a boat more like an investment holiday apartment than an expensive weekender? The notion of owning a boat means to most of us, delightful days on the water with family and friends, however with a never ending list of chores, monthly bills [...]

By Multihull Solutions Technical Manager – Nod Our Services Manager Michael Crook (better known to everyone including his parents as “Nod”), has spent most of his life playing with boats and offers some great tips to help you keep your boat in A1 condition. This tip assists in keeping your steering in check … After [...]

Posted 15 June 2011 by Andy Ireland. For those that know me at cleaning time around the boat I’m sure they call me a pain in the butt but I am anal about leaving the dock with a “clean” boat “Hey Roscoe”. To that end I have tried a gazillion products to get that “best” [...]

Multihull Solutions Buyer Broker Program. It can be very easy to be seduced by a cheap boat for sale somewhere on the other side of the world. While attracted by the idea of nabbing an overseas bargain, many people have seen their dreams fall apart when confronted with the reality of unforeseen handover issues and [...]

This informative story is written by Andy Ireland one of our happy Fountaine Pajot owners from South Australia. Andy has been an owner for many years and enjoys sharing what he has learned with fellow owners.  Here Andy shares with us some great tips on how easy it is to computerise your catamaran and get [...]

Our Services Manager Michael Crook (better known to everyone including his parents as “Nod”), has spent most of his life playing with boats and will be contributing regularly to this blog with tips to help you keep your boat in A1 condition.This month, Nod has advice on how to prolong the life of your sheets [...]

Realise your boating ambitions with the right finance solution. When considering that next boat purchase, evaluating finance options is not high on your list of priorities, yet it should be. Just as the boats you’re looking at come with many choices and accessory options, so too there are many more finance opportunities available than you [...]

By Peter Salisbury, Jan 2009 Introduction: The main thing to consider when setting up a cruising boat is what you intend to do with it. A boat used mainly for weekend cruises needs far simpler equipment aboard than one that is to be used for extended live aboard cruising. A boat that is over specified: [...]

By Kevin Jeffrey Once you’ve made the decision that your cruising boat will be a multihull, the next step is to determine how many hulls it should have. Most prospective multihull buyers have a subconscious preference for catamarans or trimarans, but often this bias reflects a lack of experience or serious investigation of the other [...]

Posted by Paul Mann (October 2006) Looking at purchasing a catamaran? Been there, done that! This article is not intended to revisit the advantages/disadvantages of multihulls versus monohulls as these issues are documented in numerous papers. Rather, I intended to try to focus on factors that become important to me during the purchasing process and [...]