Dominique Montesinos is a long-distance sailor. For more than 10 years, with his wife, they have been living and traveling the world on a 64-foot sailing catamaran: Catafjord. Inventor, handyman, but also writer, he tells his adventures in a 3-volume story: "Mamilou and Grandfather in shorts around the world" presented here to the readers of Bateaux.com .
So, when he sells his boat to replace it with a motor catamaran, everyone falls over him to ask him to explain his choice! Understand, here is a sailor who has just sailed all around the world for nearly 10 years and who changes his mind to replace the sails by diesels! That's something to be intrigued by..
This change was not made by chance, but was the result of a long reflection. And to explain it, Dominique, with his words and puns, tells this change in a book. For bateaux.com, he proposes to publish the good pages of each step, from the choice of his future boat to the transformations to make it the "ideal boat".
Bateaux.com makes you discover the first chapters of this surprising transformation:
- Why travel on a motor catamaran rather than a sailboat?
- My motor catamaran pollutes less than a sailboat!
- Our vision of the "ideal boat": the motor catamaran!
- Weight loss cure: let's land the fly
- How to improve visibility at the helm
- Energy on board, draconian choices
- Motorization and flotation, the nerve of the war
- Propellers and rudders, go slowly to consume less
- Econokits, the fuel saving trick
- Exhausts, less noise, less dirt
- The bar of the staircase, a must at the time of the aperitif
- Cockpit protection and ventilation, to live happily in the tropics
- Validation, conclusion: Long live the trawler catamaran!
Find all the online chapters of this somewhat follle transformation by clicking on the links above.
