By Philippe Echelle Year after year, South Africa is proving to be ‘the other catamaran country’. With competitive infracstructures and sub-contractors, ans an attractive work force, it is not by chance that Robertson & Caine, African Cat and Gunboat, amongst others, have set up here. Dean has been designing and building in Cape Town since [...]

BWS takes a quick look at some of the new cruising multihulls coming to the U.S. market this year. The new Dean 441 is a moderate displacement cruising cat built by Dean Catamarans in Cape Town, South Africa. The company has been building cruising cats for 15 years and has delivered more than 40 catamarans [...]

Nov 11, 2008 By Stacey Collins Customized to suit each owner, this South African-built boat is ready to voyage afar. A boat review from Cruising World July 2008 issue By Stacey Collins The aft-raked mast aboard the Dean 441 does double duty by giving this South African catamaran both better performance when sailing closehauled and [...]