The multihull market is booming – or so we keep being told – but it's not often you see a conventional sport boat builder re-evaluate its decades-old approach to business and put a second hull on a new model. Actually, that may be underselling Prestige Yachts, because the M8 is so thoughtfully designed, you'd swear the yard was a pedigree catamaran builder.
The design team went into the preliminary sketches with a motto in mind. “The king of the boat is always the owner,” says Camillo Garroni of Garroni Design,
