Previously published in Multihulls Quarterly, written by George Day.
There was hardly a zephyr and the surface of Miami’s Biscayne Bay was as flat as a parking lot. And we should have been parked even though we had the mainsail set and the big Code Zero rolled out and drawing. But somehow, the new Lagoon 42 was not parked. Instead, as the breeze gusted from five to six knots and then died again, the 42 trucked forward at an amazing 4.6 to five knots. That’s crazy. There were quite a few folks out sailing that morning and we kept checking the instruments, the GPS and our own gut feelings to assess the speed. But there it was. Read More
