The interior layout options include this four-cabin version and an alternative three-cabin layout with one hull entirely dedicated to the owner’s suite, including an office


but they can’t keep up through the waves and are totally drenched. The ease and comfort at which you can sail quickly is certainly unlike any monohull and you immediately understand the appeal of the boat; cruising comfortably at such speed is a dream. The forward hull sections are more voluminous than the 50 or 42 and the boat feels very secure.


The central cockpit area is spacious,


sheltered and free from ropes. There is an anchor roller built into the carbon bowsprit, whilst carbon fibre davits come as standard. There is an immense amount of storage under the cockpit seats, in front of the central saloon and in each bow. The sailing is essentially done from a one metre long section of the cockpit just in front of the aft crossbeam. There are two winches on the beam at either end of the mainsheet track, the windward winch loaded with the traveller and the leeward winch loaded with the mainsheet. All other sail and daggerboard controls are led to helm stations positioned on either side of the boat, and the arrangement makes sailing the boat practical, simple and intuitive. The only time you need to leave the cockpit is to hoist the sails, with the halyards led to an electric winch at the mast base.


Mainsheet winches that release


automatically in an emergency are an option which I would certainly take if planning on any shorthanded sailing for safety reasons. Electric mainsheet and jib sheet winches are an option I would select if racing fully crewed as the forces involved


make active trimming of the sails difficult, and pedestal winches would get in the way whilst cruising.


Well balanced upwind As we get further offshore we head upwind at a TWA of around 50° and SOG of about 11kts. By now TWS has crept up to 20kts and the sail charts suggest we should have changed down to the J2, but despite this boat seems well balanced and is very easy to helm. The boat obviously heels less than a monohull, and the central console is clear of the water, but those voluminous hulls do still slam into the 1.5m chop. But with nine people in the cockpit, plus the 4m tender


aft under its davits, and not much water in the tanks forward of the mast beam, the boat was a little trim to the stern. The reverse bow can initiate some slam at speed into the chop, but with weight distributon further forward, upwind sailing will be more comfortable for a cruising oriented programme. ‘We wanted to have an outstandingly


fast and safe boat on offwind angles, pretty much the way later generation Class 40s are designed for instance, so the design incorporated a lot of volume forward,’ explains Marsaudon Composites CEO Dam Caillliau. ‘Not knowing how it would finish up in the demonstration model, we decided to centre the weight as


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The forward-facing chart table is an ideal place for a night watch in cold weather, with clear views all round and instrument read-outs to hand


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