Folding Multihulls
Folding multihulls and their beam-reduction strategies. “I’ll be surprised if you can find space in the harbor for that thing,” I heard him say as my new 37‘ (11.3m) trimaran… Read more »
Know When (and How) to Fold ’Em – Professional BoatBuilder Issue 201, Feb/Mar 2023 — Folding multihulls
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