![]() In the meantime, Topcat GmbH has moved on, prospered and become a very popular brand which is still owned and run by Bernd Breymann and his family, a catsailing enthusiast who built the very first Topcat to a design by Klaus Enzmann. In fact its similarity to the Dart 18 and the threat of possible legal action kept Topcat out of the UK for more than two decades. The first Topcat appeared in 1979, three years after the Dart 18 - to which it bore more than a passing resemblance with skegs to keep the hulls on line, a boomfree mainsail and simple but sophisticated assembly system with beams sliding into hulls and no fiddly nuts or bolts. Jeremy Evans put the K3 Streamcut to the test. ![]() Topcat has become a big name in Europe with over 16,000 boats sold over three decades, but is relatively new to the UK market.
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