What is sailing and sail trim like on a cruising cat or tri? To a large extent that depends on your level of sailing expertise, on the boat you sail, and your perspective. Since the basic sailing concepts apply to all types of sailing craft including multihulls, you’ll find the experience similar to monohull sailing […]

Sailing Hydraplaneur with Yves Parlier. Hydraplaneur flying a hull Photo: TwinWhen a phone call from Ocea , Yves Parlier’s parent organization invited me to test this radical catamaran I found myself a week later in the company of a very special group of people – true pioneers of science, just as Archimedes more than 1800 […]

Uncovering the compromises of both underwater appendages and analyzing their disadvantages and merits. Man has learned much from nature, and sailboats and their underwater appendages are one of the areas that we have applied what works and what doesn’t. As we all know, boats – as most things in life- are compromises and often we […]

An essay describing FLO’s participation in the 300 mile classic offshore race.   Miki, appeared wobbly as he stepped out of the car. No wonder, he arrived the night before from Zurich and was starting to feel his biological clock being slightly out of sync with the present time of 0815 EST at Sheepshead Bay […]