The company with the Samurai sword effigy will soon be celebrating its 30th anniversary! During this period, it has made a lasting impression on the world development of ocean cruising multihulls. The appearance of the 59' marks a real change in direction, technologically and conceptually; let's look at it together.
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Catana, since 1984
When Jean-Pierre Prades and Thierry Goyard created the double-edged company in 1984, they chose an Australian architect, an unknown in Europe and a specialist in fast cruising catamarans and racing trimarans: Lock Crowther. The southern hemisphere's pioneer, who passed away prematurely in 1993 (victim of a heart attack on one of his productions, the 48-foot DEGUELLO), profoundly influenced the philosophy of the Var-based builder, which, 20 years later, was to become one of the world leaders, after it had set up at Canet-en-Roussillon. The first…
