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April, 2009--Multi 23 skippered by Randy Smyth wins overall at Trimaran Nationals in Pensacola.
Mar 26, 2009--We've had a chance to try out the screacher and I can already see its going to be a very useful sail. Its not so big that you can't use it agressively upwind in light to moderate air. On a reach it is killer, and we saw speeds in the high teens we ven while we were still being fairly cautious. It works pretty well downwind too --we don't have a spinnaker for our boat yet, its still in the design process--and we were able to keep a Corsair 28 CC from gaining on us on a run (they used a spinnaker, we used the screacher). The huge reserve of forward buoyancy on the Multi 23 is going to permit very agressive use of the screacher on reaches--where I believe you will be able to fly the main hull with full control and no fear of pitchpoling. I am not used to such a forgiving boat so its going to take me a while to figure out how hard I can push it--clearly way harder than anything I have sailed before.
Feb 9, 2009--Saw 13.6 knots on the GPS today close reaching with main and jib--no whitecaps. Seems like we can sail at better than windspeed on this point of sail.
Feb 3, 2009--Went out today with Randy Smyth on board, in the most wind I've had it out in so far (high teens). We both agreed that we saw boat speeds in the very high teens--but we had no GPS on board. Randy was very impressed with the boat's design and behavior, in particular its lack of any nosediving tendency. This is huge safety factor--as he pointed out, if a boat heels excessively, you can always blow the sheets. But if it nosedives, and stops, its almost impossible to avoid pitchpoling.
Feb 2, 2009--Our demo Multi 23 has arrived and we've been sailing it since late January. It is everything we hoped it would be and more. it took us about 2 hours to put together the first time, which can easily be reduced to 1 to 1.5 hours. Its all very easy, but having two people present definitely helps. Our demo is available for inspection and test sailing to anyone interested in buying a Multi 23. FYI another container of Multi 23s (4) is currently on its way to the USA. All but one of these is currently spoken for, but we are putting orders together another container
(4 boats per container) so if you'd like one by Spring 2009, now's the time to get your order in so you can get your boat in time. As before, we are accepting fully refundable deposits of $2,000 to reserve a Multi 23 slot. If you take a demo sail before delivery of your boat, and don't like it, we will refund your deposit no questions asked, and everyone else on the list will move up one slot.
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