Its been quite a month for Dolphin Catamarans, as the Dolphin 460 was featured in a lengthy June review in Multihulls World (Multicoques in Europe), had a feature in Cruising World’s July issue, and graced both the covers of Blue Water Sailing and Multihulls Magazine in August. To read these fine features, please follow the web links below.

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     Junior Pimenta, owner of Dolphin Catamarans, and his French builder, Phelippe Pouvreau, learned a few things from attending the Annapolis and Miami Boat shows the past four years – NORTH AMERICANS ARE TALL! Many men over 6 feet 4 inches found that the headroom in the Dolphin 460 was not great enough for them to operate in the galley with full comfort. Dolphin began to customize the galley for these tall buyers by moving the stove and refrigerators aft in the main salon (where the headroom is greatest), but decided it finally made sense to raise the entire boat 4 inches, both in the hulls and the main salon. As such, the bridge deck clearance is now 4 inches greater on the new 460 and there is more headroom in the hulls and salon. Due to these changes, Dolphin also increased the size of the rig and made other changes to insure that the boat sustains her high performance. To see all of the new specifications for the new Dolphin 460, along with current pricing, please read here.

     West Coast sailors with a serious interest in purchasing a catamaran will not want to miss the chance to take a test sail on a Dolphin 460 catamaran, "WAHOO!", owned by Gary and Diane Thompson. Gary and Diane will be hosting a San Francisco Bay demo sail on "WAHOO!" on Saturday, August 25th, 2007. Space is limited, so please contact Carol Skari at The Multihull Company to sign up for this fantastic opportunity. Carol can reached at 215-508-2704 or at carol@multihullcompany.com. For East Coast sailors, please also contact Carol as we are arranging for a similar Dolphin Demo day on the East Coast, to be announced shortly.

      “It is not often that I run across a sparkling person like Darrel,” says Phillip Berman, President of The Multihull Company. “Darrel’s truly passionate about boating, speaks the truth when he knows it and remains silent when he doesn’t…he’s just a consummate ethical professional and a perfect fit for our company’s culture.”   Darrel will be joining The Multihull Company’s Ft. Lauderdale office to team up with Florida Office Manager, Alexis de Boucaud.
    A Colorado Native and a professional in the high-tech industry, Darrel has been sailing for more than 30 years. He took a break from corporate life and spent 4 years living aboard "Acappella", his 41' sailboat. After cruising the Caribbean from the Florida Keys to Venezuela he chose an alternate career path that coincided with his real passion, boats, serving as a yacht broker, most recently at Rex Yachts, in Ft. Lauderdale. A specialist in Power Catamarans, as well as sailing cats, Darrel has the ability to offer his clients a deep understanding of the cruising market (both sail and power).  Darrel can be reached at darrel@multihullcompany.com or by phone at: (954) 309-6101

     Our Multihulls Northwest office will be exhibiting at the 31st annual Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival September 7-9, 2007.  "The Woodstock of Wooden Boats," this year's festival will include over 200 boats and hundreds of expert shipwrights and sailors.  Among the entrants will be the 52' catamaran Boondock, a Northwest designed and built interpretation of a Polynesian voyaging catamaran.  Below deck guests can become acquainted with the history and evolution of multihull designs on the Pacific and The Multihull Company's complete line of modern Dean, Dolphin, and Catana catamarans as well as our worldwide multihull brokerage services.

     The Multihull Company has selected Townsend Bay Marine as its preferred West Coast maintenance, warrantee, and repair facility for Catana, Dolphin, and Dean catamarans. 

Townsend Bay Marine is the yard of choice on the West Coast for repairs, refits, and marine construction and offers a host of resources to multihull owners.  It is served by the Port Townsend Shipyard’s 330 ton Marine Travelift accepting beams to 30’ 10”.  The facilities provide heated indoor repair and construction yards for vessels to 65’ of vertical clearance and 150’ in length.  Their staff of 50 skilled carpenters, laminators, mechanics, electricians, finishers, painters, and project managers provide all of the disciplines necessary to build, refit, and maintain sophisticated multihulls.

Townsend Bay Marine is situated in protected waters at the confluence of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Admiralty Inlet in the historic maritime community of Port Townsend.  Convenient to The Multihull Company offices on Bainbridge Island, Port Townsend is a hub of the Northwest sailing community serving voyagers off the Pacific and the sailing communities of Seattle, Vancouver, Victoria, the San Juans, and Gulf Islands.