How to sail a trimaran | Loving life on three hulls | Yachting Monthly

For their size, trimarans can punch well above their weight
in speed, cruising potential, and fun. Monohull sailor
Theo Stocker gets to grips with how to handle one...
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[@shaneriehl223]

Thanks for producing a really great video, and channel as a whole! I prefer your honest, practical, and useful material as opposed to fluff or reviews that never say a single downside to a boat! Keep it up!

[@winstoncat6785]

What a superb, useful and informative video. Thank you so much.

[@boatsonwheels17]

Nice job Theo. Great images and video, as well as excellent tips. It was a joy to sail with you!

[@zeilgenot]

Hi Theo, Never sailed a cabin trimaran but you made it very clear how to do it and that it is a lot of fun. Thnx! Harry

[@BalancedLugger]

Well made and clearly explained. Thanks for this. Good job.

[@viktorbek5098]

sailing for few years past a catamaran club, and never felt tempted to try them. Now, after watching you explain how different it is from monohull, I feel I will give them a visit and try for myself, thank you for pointing me into new adventures..

[@PN_48]

Excellent video mate. I sail a 43ft performance tri and while we still get used to it, these sort of vids / info are super helpful! Plus the Astus looks like a sweet ride👍

[@philipstrachan6212]

Thanks for putting this together. I think my next boat will be a multi, probably tri. We'll see...

[@thomashasch]

Nicely done!

[@Superbobstar]

Great Video!!!

[@mikemendes7598]

You guys needed a longer tiller extension so you could get weight forward and out. You can reduce weather helm if you have some more weight outboard. Plus, that is absolutely THE most fun you can have sailing! Sitting in the cockpit at 15 knots is fine, but being on the ama, feet above the water screaming along, is a BLAST! Might be wet, but worth it.

[@hwntwww]

move the cross beams towards the ends of the boat. attach foils to all hulls to prevent bow submersion. swap the center hull for a Mini 6.5m scow hull, 3m wide, a planing hull with more living space. i can see water hitting the cross members and dragging

[@henrikerdland578]

Please make more “how to” videos

[@stefanseyfried8201]

Great stuff! I need to try this method of mooring alongside! That seems to have worked impressively well! 👍 Any neat tricks for coming alongside in style single handed, anyone?

[@paulcoverdale8312]

We use Windrider 17s so this would be great.❤❤❤🙏🙏👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧⛵️⛵️

[@jeffpowell1616]

Almost like dinghy sailing?!

[@TheAegisClaw]

Seems to me that more normal fenders woukd make mooring a lot easier? Id ve very worried about scraping the bow with those flat things in the video.

[@boatsonwheels17]

We find that round fenders tend to roll up the side of the straight hulls whereas these flat ones stay put.

[@jamesfinn9838]

Round fenders are also quite 'solid'. The softer 'square' fenders work on the flat sides and can also be used folded around the armas stern quarters.

[@helmutfriedl3482]

Fully equipped for meditarranean we use 2 flat fenders, 3 rolls and 1 round fender on our Corsair 750. You have enough storing space thanks to 3 hulls 🙂.

[@AORD72]

If you flip it what is the process to right it? Can you right it without help?

[@boatsonwheels17]

No-one has managed to flip one of these super stable VPLP designed Astus models yet. In days of old righting these types of multihulls would have required third party assistance.

[@StefanKolmodin]

You'd need a friend with a decent power boat and a line, but you need to be really clumsy to make it flip :-)

[@AORD72]

@@StefanKolmodin "you need to be really clumsy to make it flip", well having done a lot of racing I've seen a lot of yachts tip over. So I wouldn't say clumsy, just getting caught out which can happen to anyone. I can easily imagine being caught by a a squall or a halyard jamming and being flipped.

[@StefanKolmodin]

@@AORD72 this is not a racing boat, I've really pushed my own tri to the edge racing very overpowered, but when cruising with moderate sail area up it's really hard work to flip it (Dragonfly 800R+) and this Astus seems far less extreme. Nice, fun and well behaved little boat 🙂

[@oliv9648]

I tried to test the limits of my 16.5 and even with the crew on the leeward float: it goes down below water, which slows the boat down while the center float has so much volume that it stays undisturbed and the boat then comes back up. Spectacular the first times but perfectly safe

[@winstoncat6785]

Would it do 20 knots or would that be out-of-control, dangerous territory?

[@oliv9648]

I already reached passed 20kn solo on the Astus 16.5 - much lighter though.

[@helmutfriedl3482]

It doesn't like big waves, but can withstand wind quite well compared to the small size of the boat. So keep it running sheltered and it is big fun AND safe.

[@paulcoverdale8312]

How much?

[@the-naked-sailor]

Try tacking in light winds, it's an absolute pain in the arse. Thanks for the upload.