There is something about approaching a concrete wall at high speed and in total silence while perched on a net between two lightweight carbon fibre tubes that concentrates the mind.
Sailing an Extreme 40, the super-fast catamaran class that has just completed its third season of racing in European ports, produces a sensation more like flying than sailing, except that flying is noisier and generally bumpier. The boat moves so fast that, for those on board, the wind is always blowing from in front…Â Details