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Back in the mid 1980s, [the idea of sailing] multihulls on the high seas simply meant madmen and mayhem. . . . Catamarans and trimarans were then in a very embryonic stage of development, and unfortunately many of the people designing, building and sailing them were temerarious by nature and lacked expertise, and as a result they did the concept few [favors]. (Rob Mundle, “Multihulls Revisited: Investigating the Latest Advances in Cruising Multihulls,” Offshore Yachting, 4/1/2008.)