Silent 62 open

Sitting alongside at the old port in Cannes is a boat that looks supersized almost to the point of excess. If that much is only to be expected of a 62ft power catamaran with a 29ft beam, it’s pleasing

Many years back as a young journalist I was invited to a press conference at a hotel complex where the smooth-talking owner presented an exciting plan to build a series of ‘Eco Pods’ on the land behin

Back in the 1970s multihull saillors were generally a pretty esoteric lot. It didn’t help that Donald Crowhurst ushered in the new decade with his tragic exploits in his Teignmouth Electron trimaran.

Is this the most complete multi-purpose cruiser Pardo has ever built?

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LOA: 47ft 2in (14.36m) BEAM: 23ft 3in (7.10m) ENGINES: ...