MULTI SHORTS
Performance Cruising
Outremer 49 launched
bring in the younger
The much awaited new OUTREMER 49 was
generation
launched on Monday the 24 th of August at
the Outremer shipyard in La Grande Motte.
The first sea trials of this exciting new
Christophe Barreau design started
immediately.
Powerful, comfortable and designed for
serious blue water cruising, the OUTREMER
49 makes a new chapter in this popular and respected
shipyard’s history under the management of a very efficient
team led by Xavier Desmarest.
This cat has a great pedigree with Christophe Barreau as the
architect and Franck Darnet as the interior designer.
The OUTREMER 49 made its first appearance at the Cannes
Boat Show where it has been well received. Indeed I have
heard several say that it is like sailing the old Catana 471 – an
interesting comment. The prospective owners will all be asking
is it still an Outremer? We shall see, it looks stunning. See our
test on page 22.
More details from: www.catamaran-outremer.com
Tony and Sue Smith have announced the sale of
Performance Cruising Inc. to a management Group led by
their daughter, Laura Smith Hershfeld.
Laura Smith Hershfeld has been appointed as President
of Performance Cruising Inc. and will continue to manage
the company where she has worked for the last 16 years.
Performance Cruising Inc. is the oldest, largest and
most successful catamaran builder in the US and has
built more than 1,000 of the highly successful Gemini 34
Gilles Ollier hands over the reigns
model over the last 20 years. In what has been a true at Multiplast - leading builder of
family business since being founded by Tony and Sue
maxi-multihulls
Smith in 1980, PCI now goes forward into the future
under the management of the next generation of the In 1981, Gilles Ollier created Multiplast to build the first big
Smith family. carbon multihulls. Since then Multiplast has built some of
France’s leading racing multihulls and has pushed forward
Tony and Sue will be heading south to Florida and the the development of composite technology and composite
Bahamas in the autumn aboard their own Gemini 105 boatbuilding. Continual development and diversification over
upon the completion of the transition period. "Sue and I 28 years has led to the company having a major presence in
are very happy to have handed over the management of two particular markets:
our family business to our daughter, Laura. She has - racing yachts and custom-designed boats.
inherited an excellent team of craftsmen, many of - manufacture of large scale composite components for
whom have been with us for more than a decade and industry eg aerospace, telecommunications, defence.
are personally attached to both the product and the
reputation that they have helped us create and build After many years at the head of Multiplast, Ollier has decided
over the years." to hand over his growing company to Dominique Dubois, an
industrialist from the aeronautical field and a leisure sailor.
Laura Smith Hershfeld stated that "this is the culmination Dubois intends to continue the company's development in
of a life's work for my parents and I am looking forward both fields of activity.
to continuing the legacy and the product that they have
built." Gilles Ollier will remain alongside Dominique Dubois for
whatever time is necessary for the transition to be as smooth
More details from: www.performancecruising.com as possible.
4  MULTIHULL REVIEW : OCTOBER 2009
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