Although most cruising catamarans are nowadays equipped with two diesels and saildrive legs, this wasn’t always the case…and what about trimarans, smaller boats, propellers and propshafts? Multihulls World takes stock of engine propulsion in general for you, often a sensitive subject…
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Published on 20/03/2018
By
Vince Valstar
Issue:
159
Published:
May.
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Jun.
2018
You only have to look in the multihull area of a big show, such as the International Multihull Show, to get a fairly accurate idea of the trend in engines: most builders have opted for rather powerful diesels – certainly more than was the case twenty years ago. Electric propulsion is the ‘in’ thing…but is taking a long time to equip our multihulls. Outboards, popular on boats of up to 35 feet in the past, have almost disappeared – among other reasons because there are no longer many cruising catamarans under 35 feet. On models equipped with them, we generally find a…
