Sailing on Hydroptere looks like it'd be a lot of fun... multihulls have set a lot of records... including an upset in the 32nd America's Cup way back in DC's heyday... trouncing the much larger monohull.
Ellen MacArthur set a solo round the world record in a trimaran back in 2005.
Orange II, Bruno Peyron's catamaran set the Transatlantic crewed record last year.
In fact, the last three fastest circumnavigation records were done in three different multihulls: Francis Joyon in the trimaran IDEC; Ellen MacArthur in the trimaran B&Q; and Bruno Peyron in the catamaran Orange II. Joyon and MacArthur did it single-handed, and Peyron had crew.
Another good clue is to look at the WSSC ratified distance records, and notice that a majority of the entries are multihulls.
I guess that answers who sails a trimaran... or a multihull anyways...
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