{"id":405,"date":"2025-10-22T14:43:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yachtersworld.com\/?p=405"},"modified":"2025-10-22T14:43:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:43:36","slug":"supercats-maxicats-megacats-16-new-high-performance-luxury-multihulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yachtersworld.com\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"Supercats, Maxicats, Megacats: 16 new high-performance luxury multihulls"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest wave of performance luxury multihulls is bigger, faster, and more luxurious than ever. Toby Hodges reports on the continued rise of the big cat<\/strong><\/p>\n

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There\u2019s been the odd singular sailing superyacht<\/a> thus far, the likes of the 44m Pendennis-built Hemisphere and Perini Navi\u2019s recent 46m floating art gallery ArtExplorer, while JFA has quietly gone about launching a handful of 85-110ft custom sailing catamarans<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But a new pride of big cats<\/a> is coming. Last year John Mountain launched his carbon bluewater sailboat<\/a> Air Yacht 80 after failing to find his preferred blend of performance, space and superyacht quality.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s the performance element which has triggered this new trend that we centre on in these pages. Yachting World readers will have noticed a similar movement with monohull<\/a>s of late, where production yards have stepped up to cater to a semi-custom demand in the 70-90ft sector.<\/p>\n

We dedicated these pages to them two years ago, detailing the latest launches from YYachts, Solaris, Grand Soleil, CNB, Ice and Swan. Now with an increasing number of sailors seeking that size, style and speed combination on two hulls, it\u2019s fuelled a real surge of new, big (and mostly fast) cats.<\/p>\n

Gunboat can arguably be credited with igniting this performance cruising cat cult and we\u2019ve been writing about and reviewing a multitude 45-60ft fast cruising cats in YW in recent years. Now they\u2019re growing in size, space and pace. McConaghy, Balance, Kinetic, Advanced Yachts, Black Pepper, Cure Marine and HH are all producing or have recently launched varying levels of performance cats around the 70ft region.<\/p>\n

Typically, these involve carbon or E-GRP<\/a> lightweight composite construction, ultra fine bows, and powerful rig<\/a>s with booms kept low down. Where Gunboat and HH are taking it to the next level of luxurious lightweight performance, we can see the needle shifting further still, and at each end of the spectrum too.<\/p>\n

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