Salt Water Sportsman tests the Aquila 36 Molokai

Tested in confused seas off Jupiter, Florida

When Salt Water Sportsman's Sam White ran the Aquila 36 Molokai offshore of Jupiter, Florida, the conditions did him a favor: 15 to 20 knots of northeast wind against an outgoing tide, swells stacked into confused three- to five-footers.

His reaction to how the boat took them: "The 36 barely noticed."

The full review works through the questions anglers have long asked about power catamarans — tunnel slap, sneezing, bow steer in quartering seas — then turns to how the 36 actually fishes, from the three-livewell bait program to 198 gallons of insulated fishbox and true 360-degree deck access.