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.