BOATS & GEAR NEW TECHNOLOGY, REVIEWS PRODUCTS CRUISING SAILOR

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It was truly a great sail.

Now, of course, every boat is a compromise, and the challenge with cruising tris, when compared with cruising cats, comes with the interior layout and accommodations. Cats are big platforms, and it’s actually quite easy to spec one out with a huge owner’s cabin in one hull, and a pair of comfortable bedrooms in the other, not to mention a good-size living room and kitchen on the central deck between them. But what do you do with a trimaran, where the outer hulls need to remain light and relatively unencumbered for performance purposes, not packed with palatial cabins and heads?

Well, the answer to that on the Neel is to make the central hull as comfortable as possible for the couple who owns it—in other words, to maximize the