New yachts

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.

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

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LOA: 58ft 6in (17.84m) BEAM: 24ft 10in (7.56m) ...

Rupert Holmes looks at one of the most desirable cruising yachts of the Sadler era, as well as some alternative boats