Brian Cohen’s $2.5 million Gunboat 55 catamaran is an island of calm. From the 78-foot mast to the lithium batteries in the bilge, Cohen’s Gunboat 55 represents an assemblage of technology that was ...

Just like the old, clichéd saying goes, “The two happiest days in a sailor’s life are the day he buys his boat, and the day he sells it.” And it appears John John Florence is doing the latter, now, as ...

An application of CompPair’s healable composite materials, HealTechTM, has been developed in collaboration with Gunboat, a company designing and selling high-performance cruising catamarans. The ...

Hexcel’s (Stamford, Conn., U.S.) latest collaboration in the marine market provides multihull builder Gunboat (Newport, R.I., U.S. and La Grande Motte, France) with a highly optimized package of ...

Sailboat builder Gunboat (Cape Town, South Africa) grew from founder Peter Johnstone’s concept that a high-performance cruising sailboat should be able to comfortably travel 300 nautical miles (345 ...

Ten months after wreckage from the first Gunboat 55 to be built turned up in Bermudian waters the catamaran is preparing to undergo a major refit in England. Rainmaker was torn to pieces in a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bill Springer would rather be on a superyacht. And he often is. As a growing number of new catamaran designs continue to be ...