Over recent years there has been a big increase in the number of cruising catamarans making the transatlantic crossing. Of the 250 yachts crossing the Atlantic with the ARC and ARC+ this year, 60 (24%) were multihulls, and in some Caribbean anchorages monohulls are now the minority with private and charter catamarans dominating.
I'm fortunate in having raced and cruised multihulls on four transatlantics, along with half a dozen passage speed records on Playstation, the late Steve Fossett’s maxi cat. As a meteorologist and weather router I also help a number of catamarans which are cruising around the world.
ROUTING FUNDAMENTALS
Weather routing is all about getting a boat from point A to point B in the optimum way. This is usually considered to be in
