HITTING THE SWEET SPOT?
It’s been more than six years since the Nautitech yard in Rochefort launched an entirely new design, but this 44 Open marks the company’s return to the forefront of the multihull scene. It shares the Open layout of Nautitech’s past models, but embodies the brand’s new strategy to address owner-operators rather than the charter market. We were able to judge the concept during an early sea trial on the Bay of Biscay.
The Nautitech 44 Open was developed in just 14 months during the middle of the pandemic and owes a great deal to the dozen owners and dealers consulted to define their ‘ideal’ catamaran. The feedback from this working party convinced the yard to focus on cruising owners and to go for a
