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The "bigger" Taipan 5.7 was designed with the same principles as the 4.9 but made for a larger crew. A crew weight of 350–375 lb (160–170 kg) two adult males is the optimal crew for this 5.7-metre (18 ft 8 in) catamaran.
It grew to considerable popularity in the 1950s but its popularity gradually diminished during the 1960s. A redesigned hull for plywood construction by John Spencer kept the class going but on a smaller scale with a small revival in the 1990s with about 10 new boats being built. The Idle-Along is also sometimes referred to as IdleAlong, Idle ...
Philip C. Bolger (December 3, 1927 – May 24, 2009) was a prolific American boat designer, who was born and lived in Gloucester, Massachusetts.He began work full-time as a draftsman for boat designers Lindsay Lord and then John Hacker in the early 1950s.
The OSB is a boat that can be built using a single sheet of 4 foot by 8 foot plywood (1.22 m × 2.44 m). Some additional wood is often used, for supports, chines, or as a transom, though some can be built entirely with the sheet of plywood. OSBs tend to be very small, since the displacement is limited to a theoretical maximum of about 1500 lb ...
Dudley Dix is a yacht designer, of South African origin, now based in Virginia Beach, US. [1] He graduated from the Westlawn School of Yacht Design. [2] [3] He is notable for having developed the "radius chine plywood" method as a basis for boat construction. [4]
"Friends Forever", a DH550 55' radius chine plywood catamaran built by J-J Provoyeur & others. Provoyeur has built numerous monohulls and catamarans, principally employing the cold-moulding and Dudley Dix "radius chine plywood" [2] techniques, using plywood and epoxy. Such vessels range from small sailing dinghies to large 60' racing yachts and ...
Arthur Piver (/ ˈ p aɪ v ər /; "Piver rhymes with diver"; 1910–1968) was a World War II pilot, an amateur sailor, author, printshop owner and renowned boatbuilder who lived in Mill Valley on San Francisco Bay and became "the father of the modern multihull."
The United States Navy initiated the SES model test program in 1960. By 1963, a 10-ton test craft called the XR-1 was designed and built to test the surface effect concept.. The first version of the XR-1 used fixed plywood seals at the fore and aft ends of the captured air bubble sect