Trimaran Macif sailing in New York

"The Bridge" a race across the Atlantic pitted 4 Ultime trimarans against the Queen Mary 2.  The weather conditions were not favorable for the trimarans and they were not able to best the QM2.  The winning trimaran from the group of Ultimes was not surprisingly the newest "Macif" skippered by Francois Gabart took the line honors.  A video of the team out and about in New York has been published and gives a great look at this trimaran powerhouse in action.


The Bridge 2017: Trimaran Macif - New-York ESTV from New-York Euskadi Surf TV on Vimeo.

Hydroptere in action with aerial drone footage, on water and onboard views

Sodebo team, Aerial video of new Sodebo Ultime

Sodebo Voile - Thomas Coville : Sodebo Ultim... by sodebo-voile

Maxi trimaran Sodebo and Thomas Coville, aerial video filming

Looking forward to the final video it appears they managed to get some great shots.

Cruising the Whitsunday Islands on the Formula 40 trimaran "Spirit" by Jason Gard

You can read up on Jason's ongoing adventures on "Spirit" on his blog:

http://trimaranspirit.blogspot.com.au/

Nixe Proa, videos of the boat under sail and motor

It's been interesting to watch Alexander's home built Nixe proa under construction and now sailing you can read about it over at the excellent proafile.com forum.  It's intended as a performance cruiser and seems to fulfill it's brief well.  Nice cruising grounds too Phang Nga Bay is spectacular.

You can read about the boats construction and launching at the following link.

http://proafile.com/forums/viewthread/123/

Golden Oldies trophy 2013 in Sete, South of France

Lots of recognizable classic racing and cruising multihulls in this fantastic video from the Golden Oldies association.  Thanks to HASYB for the link to this great video.


GOT2013 by goldenoldies

GC32 racing catamaran sailing in Ebensee with Team Austria

America's Cup World Series, live streams scheduled on Youtube for Naples Event

Day one of America's Cup World Series racing in Naples



Day two of racing in Naples



Day three of racing in Naples



Day four of racing in Naples

America's Cup update, Artemis team's Nathan Outerridge and Loick Peyron discuss the foiling future for the team

AC Uncut's Genny Tulloch and crew discuss the future directions of the Artemis America's Cup Team in regards to foiling with Nathan Outerridge and Loick Peyron.

http://youtu.be/LXkrgN5FugU

Video from Ahoy Boats, UK outlining their new multihulls for the 2013 season

A video from Stephen Walker outlining the new production multihulls that will be available from Ahoy Boats in 2013.  Most interesting to me was the foiling Catri 25 trimaran I thought the Catri concept and company was defunct but apparently they have new management and are back in business.

http://youtu.be/hr4msSiGgEc

Red Bull Youth America's Cup, onboard footage of racing

A recently uploaded video shows the onboard activity from various positions on the boat from helmet cams to cameras on the bow prod and wing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRMBZQZNirI

Trimaran Spirit, video of the Brisbane to Gladstone Race from onboard

Jason owner/skipper of the modified Formula 40 trimaran Spirit has uploaded a video of the recent Brisbane to Gladstone Race.  They suffered from not having good sails and their light air screecher blowing out but still showed that the boat was competitive. 

http://youtu.be/3kTPuRn1CiE

America's Cup World Series, AC Uncut talk to Ben Ainslie

Genny Tulloch and the AC Uncut crew talk to Ben Ainslie about the upcoming Naples ACWS event as part of the JP Morgan/BAR team and adapting to multihulls and new sailing techniques.

MOD70 update, Virbac Paprec Team first sailing session.

John Pierre Dick and the Virbac Paprec MOD70 team have taken the new craft out on it's first sailing session. 


27 mars 2013 - Premières navigations à bord de... by Virbac-Paprec_SailingTeam

Vestas Sailrocket 2, video on CNN Mainsail

An excellent video has been uploaded by CNN Mainsail on Paul Larsen and the Vestas Sailrocket Team on their quest to become the fastest sailng craft on the water.

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/sports/2013/03/14/mainsail-paul-larsen-a.cnn

Another video from Matakana Raid

Thanks to crew.org.nz for the link to this video uploaded by TYPBCmultihullers

 

Prince de Bretagne Maxi, new aerial video

Recently posted video shows the new Prince de Bretagne Maxi with Lionel Lemanchois soloing the boat.  The team has moved to the excellent Lorient Submarine Base facility where they can berth the boat outside and have full team and workshop facilities onsite. 

http://youtu.be/R5eE4BtFD7E

 

Lionel Lemanchois and Prince de Bretagne Maxi, France 3 Basse Normandie tv segment

Report on the new Prince de Bretagne Maxi trimaran on France 3 basse Normadie.  Some great shots of the boat being pushed.

GC32 Catamaran designer Martin Fischer comments on the foil system

In this short video Martin Fischer the designer of the GC32 racing catamaran comments on the crafts lifting foil and rudder system.  The lifting foils are of the "S"type and provide lift and lateral resistance and the rudders are 'L' shaped and adjustable to help stabilise the boat while it is flying.