Allegra: Ready for Sailing Trials

Alegra APC78

Built in advanced carbon composites to an exacting programme of weight minimisation with a very full cruising specification, Allegra, promises to set new standards of multihull performance. After leaving the Green Marine workshop the state of the art, fully customised rotating carbon mast and boom from Future Fibres was rigged…

Protecting the oceans with Ocean Eagle 43

Developed from Nigel Irens Design’s experience with ocean racing multihulls and record-breaking power trimarans like the 21.3m (70ft) ILAN Voyager 21 and the 35m (113ft) Brigitte Bardot (ex-Cable & Wireless), the 43m (141ft) Ocean Eagle 43 trimaran will have a range of over 3,000 nautical miles and a top speed…

Allegra: Fast Cruising Redefined

The brief for Nigel Irens Design was to create a 24m (78ft) catamaran that would genuinely out-perform quite seriously refined and longer single-hulled yachts on all points of sailing, while nevertheless retaining the comfort of a fully fitted out cruiser. The added weight of all of the comforts of cruising…