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It’s not difficult these days to view the past with somewhat rose tinted spectacles and think it was a domain where everything was just better – or at the very least less complicated. This is not, however, something that applies to the world of multihulls. Back in the day, your average cruising multihull had all the visual appeal of a pair of cupboards placed horizontally with a garden shed strapped atop. Quite frequently they sailed to windward with all the prowess of this structure. If you look at some of the somewhat high freeboard monsters out there on the market at the moment you might be tempted to say, well, plus ca change. But the fact is that almost all now sail with some degree of competence upwind and often dreamily off the wind. There is, however, one area where you could look back with misty eyes to the past and that is when it comes to size. In common