Catamarans, Every Sailor’s Guide

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        Catamarans, Every Sailor’s GuideThe original expanded version - first edition. A long overdue, in-depth reference guide to the lifestyle of modern cruising catamarans, focusing on design and seamanship issues with a special chapter highlighting notable production multihulls. A must read for any open minded sailor written by today’s leading industry expert Gregor Tarjan. CATAMARANS, EVERY SAILORS GUIDE is an authoritative work for novices and experienced sailors; the best book written on the subject since the early 90s. Stunning photography and beautifully illustrated - a must read ! 8 12×11 14 hardcover, 278 pages, 206 photos, 54 graphs and illustrations. Photography by leading marine photographer, Gilles Martin-Raget.

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“A picture is worth a thousand words…” Lots of pictures and great information by B. Robinson
For a long while I have been dreaming of owning a cruising catamaran and went online to get information. I ordered “Catamarans, Every Sailor’s Guide” and believe it to be my best investment of time and money so far. The information comes from an author with considerable experience who appears to be unbiased. It is full of photos and layouts for current (2007) production models. I hope future editions of this text are available for future models as I believe this is an excellent source of information for those wanting to learn more about modern catamarans.

Unsurpassed Knowledge by Milton Charbonneau
After meeting the author in different places over the last couple of years I was interested in the book. Mr. Tarjan has experience that comes hard and takes time. He has been involved in other published multihull accounts and this book is a culmination of a long history selling, building and sailing catamarans. Well done and looks great.

Where is my book ? by Ronaldo J. F. Migueis
On My 25th, 2008 I paid with VISA via Amazon but until now, I did not recided the book from Aeroyacht.

What happened ? I sent several e-mails to Amazon and Aeroyacht and no reply !

I am a customer of Amazon for some years without problem, but now I have one !

Good Performance Sailing Tips, Nice Pictures by Amatori Augusto
This book is beautifully laid out and would look good on anybody’s coffe table. Multihull champion and dealer Gregor Tarjan outlines modern catamaran advantages over monohulls and describes what attributes make them perform well - as seen in several other multihull texts, but with nicer pictures here.

On and off throughout the book he explains how to get the best performance out of a catamaran: his discussion on how best to use Apparent Wind, VMG and daggerboards to one’s advantage is the best I have seen, with easy to understand charts and drawings. There is a chapter on construction with interesting information (e.g. cycles to failure for different types of materials) but I found it difficult to relate it to any particular production boat. Anchoring and heavy weather sailing get light treatment and are much better covered in other texts.

The author concludes the 200 pages of main text with 50 pages dedicated to Noteworthy Multihulls. Each of 25 multihulls gets a two-page spread with beautiful pictures, just the most basic of specifications, and a very short blurb that could have been written by the builders themselves. After the good discussion of parameters, construction, and evaluation coefficients throughout the book (e.g. Hull Finess Ratio, Sail Area to Wetted Surface, bridge deck clearance, payload ability etc.) I was disappointed that data was not available to compare the different Noteworthy Designs based on what I had learned in the previous pages. Other than the fact that Outremer is the most present builder in the pictures, this book will not help you decide whether you should buy a Catana 47 or a Switch 51.

Overall, even though the information was often scattered throughout several chapters, I liked Catamarans-Every Sailor’s Guide mainly for the beautiful pictures and the excellent seamanship discussion.

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