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The boat was initially launched "Code Zero" as its owners searched for sponsorship. It was soon renamed Innovation Explorer and is an ocean-racing catamaran.It was built for The Race, a no-limits non-stop crewed circumnavigation in which she took second place.
The Trac 14 is an American catamaran sailing dinghy that was designed by Australians Richard McFarlane and Jay McFarlane as a one-design racer and first built in 1980. [1] [2] The design is a licensed version of the 1976 Windrush 14, which was originally known as the Surfcat and built by Windrush Catamarans of Australia. The Trac 14 is 25 lb ...
Derek Kelsall (15 May 1933 – 11 December 2022) was an English multihull sailboat designer latterly resident in New Zealand. [1] [2]He began his career in surveying and in the oil industry, but found the lure of boats too great to ignore.
The Nacra 15 is a performance catamaran used for racing. It went into production in 2015. It went into production in 2015. It was designed as a smaller version of the Olympic multihull class, the Nacra 17 .
Following the 2010 America's Cup, where the Golden Gate Yacht Club's USA 17 trimaran defeated the catamaran Alinghi 5, it was decided by the winners that the next America's Cup competition would be sailed in catamarans in the hope of making the sport more attractive to television audiences. [2]
The Lagoon 500 is a recreational catamaran. It has a fractional sloop rig, with a deck-stepped mast, two sets of swept spreaders and aluminum spars with 1X19 stainless steel wire rigging. The hulls have raked stems , reverse transoms with swimming platforms, dual internally mounted spade-type rudders controlled by a wheel on a flying bridge and ...
Wharram was born in Manchester, England.In 1953, after long studies into the records of boats of the Pacific in the libraries and museums of Britain, and inspired by Eric de Bisschop's book The voyage of the Kaimiloa, [1] he designed and built the first British ocean-going double-canoe-catamaran, the Tangaroa (length 23 feet 6 inches (7.16 m)) and in 1955–56 sailed with Jutta Schultze ...
The Coronado 15 is a recreational planing sailboat, built predominantly of fiberglass.It has a fractional sloop rig with black anodized aluminum spars. The mast is flexible and supported by stainless steel standing rigging.