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Windcraft specializes in multihull sailboats, both catamarans and trimarans such as the immensely popular Corsair trailerable trimarans, the exciting new van Peteghem and Lauriot Prevost designed Multi 23 sports trimaran, and Motorcat power catamarans. We have two locations, one near Destin in north Florida and another in Atlanta. Windcraft is owned and operated by Don Wigston, a long-time Corsair trimaran owner and racer, so Windcraft knows Corsair boats inside and out. In addition to the full Corsair line-up, Windcraft also offers two high-performance cruising catamarans from TRT Multihulls in Norway--the TRT 1200 and 1420. In addition, we offer two really nice power catamarans built in Poland - the Motorcat 30 and Motorcat 29.

Windcraft also offers the popular Windrider trimarans, including the Windrider 17 tri, Windrider 16 tri, and Windrider Rave hydrofoil trimaran. At present, however, only the Windrider 17 is available new, while the new factory ramps up production. Nevertheless, we can often find used Windriders for you call and ask.

In addition to our lines of new sail and power multihulls, Windcraft offers an extensive selection of previously owned multihulls. While we focus primarily on used Corsair trimarans, we also offer several non-Corsair boats, a variety of larger cruising cats and tris, and some smaller and more affordable multihulls like the Farrier-designed Trailer Tri and older Dragonflies, plus the occasional power cat.

Our mission is to provide our customers with the best possible service not only during the purchase phase, but throughout the ownership period. Don Wigston is usually available seven days a week, evenings included, for immediate advice and assistance. If the time comes around to sell your multihull, or trade up, Windcraft is there to help you get the most value out of your boat. We often have buyers looking for particular models so please call us if you decide to put yours on the market.

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It's not all white-knuckle racing. Corsairs are great cruisers and daysailers, too.
It's not all white-knuckle racing. Corsairs are great cruisers and daysailers, too.
Newsflash
Corsair Dash 750

The latest model from Corsair Marine is called the Dash 750 and is a development of the Corsair 24 and Sprint 750. This exciting new boat has the mast, sail plan and foils (daggerboard and rudder) from the sporty Sprint 750, an interior similar to that of the Corsair 24, and higher buoyancy floats than the 24 or the 750, with plumb bows on the floats and main hull. Its a great looking boat, with better interior accommodations than a Sprint 750, and promises to be an excellent performer. Check out Corsair Marine's web site for more information or click here to see a short video by Sailing World where Mat Bryant points out the features of the Dash 750.

Multi 23 trimaran update

April, 2009--Multi 23 skippered by Randy Smyth wins overall at Trimaran Nationals in Pensacola. 

Mar 26, 2009--We've had a chance to try out the screacher and I can already see its going to be a very useful sail. Its not so big that you can't use it agressively upwind in light to moderate air. On a reach it is killer, and we saw speeds in the high teens we ven while we were still being fairly cautious. It works pretty well downwind too --we don't have a spinnaker for our boat yet, its still in the design process--and we were able to keep a Corsair 28 CC from gaining on us on a run (they used a spinnaker, we used the screacher). The huge reserve of forward buoyancy on the Multi 23 is going to permit very agressive use of the screacher on reaches--where I believe you will be able to fly the main hull with full control and no fear of pitchpoling. I am not used to such a forgiving boat so its going to take me a while to figure out how hard I can push it--clearly way harder than anything I have sailed before.

Feb 9, 2009--Saw 13.6 knots on the GPS today close reaching with main and jib--no whitecaps. Seems like we can sail at better than windspeed on this point of sail.

Feb 3, 2009--Went out today with Randy Smyth on board, in the most wind I've had it out in so far (high teens). We both agreed that we saw boat speeds in the very high teens--but we had no GPS on board. Randy was very impressed with the boat's design and behavior, in particular its lack of any nosediving tendency. This is huge safety factor--as he pointed out, if a boat heels excessively, you can always blow the sheets. But if it nosedives, and stops, its almost impossible to avoid pitchpoling.

Feb 2, 2009--Our demo Multi 23 has arrived and we've been sailing it since late January. It is everything we hoped it would be and more. it took us about 2 hours to put together the first time, which can easily be reduced to 1 to 1.5 hours. Its all very easy, but having two people present definitely helps. Our demo is available for inspection and test sailing to anyone interested in buying a Multi 23. FYI another container of Multi 23s (4) is currently on its way to the USA. All but one of these is currently spoken for, but we are putting orders together another container (4 boats per container) so if you'd like one by Spring 2009, now's the time to get your order in so you can get your boat in time. As before, we are accepting fully refundable deposits of $2,000 to reserve a Multi 23 slot. If you take a demo sail before delivery of your boat, and don't like it, we will refund your deposit no questions asked, and everyone else on the list will move up one slot.

Multi 23 Trimaran-first impressions

Sailing the Multi 23: I just got back from test-sailing the Multi 23 in California. I can sum it up in two words: "totally awesome". But if you want to read a more extensive account of my first impressions please go to the Multi 23 page in our New Boats section (click on New Boats in the left menu, and go to Multi 23 Trimarans).

BTW the Multi 23 showed both its high wind and light wind capabilities recently at the Indian Summer Splash in southern California. On the 36 mile race from Marina Del Rey to Catalina Island, winds were in the 15 to 20 kt. range, and seas were rough. The little Multi 23 managed to stay with the fastest (the Corsair F-31s) of the approx 30 multihulls in the fleet. The race back from Catalina the next day was in lighter wind (less than 10 knots and flatter seas. Spinnakers were used almost all the way, and in this race the Multi 23 was the first boat to finish.

Coming soon: our experiences assembling the boat, and our first sail in our home waters of Fort Walton Beach, FL.

 

 

Motorcat MC 29
Motorcat has introduced the gorgeous new MC 29 power cat to complement their popular MC 30 model. A color brochure is available for viewing or downloading.  (2 mb pdf file).