Delos explorer 53

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

LOA: 71ft 4in (21.75m) BEAM: 18ft 4in (5.60m) ...

LOA: 65ft 2in (19.86m) BEAM: 17ft 3in (5.25m) TOP ...

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.

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

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