Catamarans

Plan South America’s sleek cruiser will ply the waters of the Bocas del Toro from the mainland coast to Escudo de Veraguas in sybaritic style

So highly strung were the foiling catamarans of the past two America’s Cups that no one imagined they could give birth to offshore cruiser-racers. Until now, as Matthew Sheahan reports

The four-cabin Blue Deer can ply the waters from Palmarola to Sardinia

Hotels from Morocco to the Mekong are extending their influence out over the waves with catamarans, phinisis or dhows for overnight journeys or longer expeditions to remote destinations. Maria Shollenbarger reports