save weight for higher performance.
Security exceed the requisite European
standard, but just in case, two extra
crash boxes are provided and there are
four watertight bulkheads.
The deck design is particularly clever.
Four Harken winches, two for the mail
sail, one for the davits, serves the
dinghy and the spinnaker’s sheets and
two for the headsails that are suitably
high for someone of an average size.
The area over the coach roof is large
enough, there is a flush-deck and
the storage rooms are reasonably
roomy. I would just have added one
or two stairs to get to the coach roof
more easily. The helm station seats
remind me of the Open 60 style and
are incredibly comfy, they are indeed
custom-tailored moulded. I was first
sceptical, questioning their position and
usefulness, thinking they would take
too much space and would be in the
way for manoeuvring but actually I was
wrong. Steering the Outremer 49 with
a tiller is quiet pleasant, even more with
the waves we had this day. With 23
knots of apparent wind at 100° from the
wind, we easily get 12 knots without »
apparent effort accelerating to 17 knots
  OCTOBER 2009 : MULTIHULL REVIEW  23
Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48  |  Page 49