If y oufancy a fast open day boat with party-venue practicality, the twin-hulled Aquila 32 Sport might be just the solution you’ve been waiting for…
Thehuman race can be divided into two distinct camps - monohull advocates and multihull fans. The former talk about style, pace and handling agility. The latter like to expand on the merits of Aside from the odd wide-beamed deck space, stability and running efficiency.
boat or compact twin-hulled estuary runabout, very few boats have managed to straddle the yawning chasm between the two. But here, in the form of the Aquila 32 Sport, we have a boat that seems to stand a much better chance than most.
Developed in collaboration with the J&J Design Group and built at Sino Eagle’s 1-million ft² Chinese production facility, the first thing that strikes you is the styling. It may be a cat but, with a beam of just 12ft 8in (which is relatively modest by cat standards), the new 32 looks from some angles like a sporting bow rider from a mainstream monohull brand.
That sleekness of form is also helped by the attention Aquila has paid to moulded angles and contrasting panels in the hull, the topsides and the T-Top. But when you actually step on board, the Aquila’s twin-hulled underpinnings couldn’t be more obvious.
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With a beam 70cm greater than even a wide monohull like the Saxdor 320, the 32 Sport delivers all kinds of internal flexibility. The fact that the engines are so widely spaced, for instance, enables the inclusion of a large central swim platform with custom swim ladder and integrated grab rails for easy access in and out of the water. And yet there’s still sufficient breadth back here for integrated platforms on either side of the engines for stepping on and off the pontoon.
When you do so, of course, the lateral stability of the Aquila means that it barely even registers any shift in weight at all. And in the cockpit itself, the sheer space on offer also feels pretty special. There’s room for five to sit on the aft benches, plus another four on each of the bench seats that run fore-and-aft on either side of the deck. You can of course configure this zone with a large table or sunbed infils but even then, such is the space on offer that the ease of movement is in no way inhibited.
The seating units are practical too. Both aft benches can be hinged upwards in their entirety, giving great access to the spaces inside each hull, where there’s plenty of room for the optional generator. Be
