If the new-build mix has been roughly half multihulls for years and the used market hasn't fully caught up, the resale math on a 2028 catamaran purchase looks different than the brokers are pricing today.
Six people in a dinghy is two trips, an overload, or a different dinghy than the one you thought you wanted. Nine months of pencil work and four constraints later, here is what I am buying.
Real product names, real weights, real prices. The ground tackle list I'm building before the boat — and where I'd spend more than the chart says to.
Most cruising-cost articles are written by someone who hasn't owned the boat. Here's the honest five-year number for a family of six on a 50-foot catamaran.
On a cruising cat, lateral resistance is the choice you make once and pay for in maintenance, draft, anchorage selection, and resale for as long as you own the boat. Three months into our worksheet, I keep moving — here's the case for both, and where I think we'll land.
The biggest multihull show ever doesn't tell you much by itself. The trends in the boats moored four-deep at La Grande-Motte do.
