The website of a Derek Kelsall trimaran and the story of the development of modern multihulls

Legs of Mann V 

After building three Kelsall trimarans and the racing catamaran Legs of Man IV (VSD) Nick Keig's last Kelsall project was a cruising catamaran but one with a performance  bias. Completed and launched in 1986 it appears that she did not remain in Nick's ownership for long and while some of the pictures below come from brokerage and also from a story published online in 2004 where she was now called Vida Alegria bought in the Philippines in 2001 for 150,000 euros and sailed back 4600 miles via the Maldives, up the Red Sea and to Turkey by a professional skipper. In 2011 she was in the Caribbean called Kiki.

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