West Coast Sailors Meet Up in Caribbean Multihull Challenge
California is not known for having lots of multihulls, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t many multihull owners from the West. The owners may live here, but their boats are all over the world. Writer/sailor Michelle Slade is spending some winter months in St. Martin, where she joined the St. Martin Yacht Club’s Caribbean Multihull Challenge aboard Santa Barbara sailor Ron Boehm’s Antrim Perry 52 catamaran Little Wing.
Ron has been sailing most of his life, though much of it on International 14s.
Multihull sailor Kevin Hutton started his catamaran sailing working for a Southern California Hobie dealer in the ’70s.
The regatta winner was Todd Slyngstad from Los Gatos aboard his HH66 catamaran Nemo. Despite his success with Nemo there is a goal to go even faster with a MOD70.
Check out the story in the March issue.