Yachting World

MATT SHEAHAN

I’m addicted to offshore machines and regularly suffer an uncontrollable urge to watch hours of Ultime and IMOCA 60 footage.

On the big multihulls in particular, I still don’t get how anybody manages the mental stress of riding a guided missile at 35-45 knots in the dark, let alone how they physically handle these machines alone or double-handed. How do you live aboard a jaw-shattering carbon platform that is trying to hurl you across the cabin or

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