Mega-Catamarans

As I said in one of my last post I will write about different types of Catamarans, first of these with out a motor. So we'll now talk about Mega-Catamarans.

Mega-Catamarans are defined as "multihulls over 100 feet (30 m) in length" (Wikipedia)

One of the first of this super catamarans was an Allures cat, which is over 30 metres long and was build from Blubay Yachts who launched it 2007 in France, it got later refitted by Coste Design&Partners.

Coste Design&Partners is also preparing a new project called "Event Cat". It's a luxury Yacht which will be used for numerous events and will have a length of 62 metres

http://www.charterworld.com/news/fortabat-yacht-design-celebrates-10th-anniversary/luxury-catamaran-allures

This isn't the Cat I'm talking about but it's still an impressive Yacht and I would suggest that you look allures up yourself to find even more impressive Pictures

Beside luxury an other reason for the increased building of Super-Catamarans was "The Race".

A sailing race around the world held in 2001. It was the first non-stop, no-rules, no-limits race ever.

 Because of it's prestige and the $2 Million US price, there were four new Mega-Catamarans build.

The largest of these mega-cats called "playstation" and owned by Steven Fossett was 38m long and it's mast was 45m high had to drop due a serious damage out of "The Race" after just 16 days.

http://lyofood.com/pages/the-race