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Jim Brown is a multihull sailboat designer who collaborates with John Marples. [1] The pair are responsible for the Constant camber, Seaclipper and Searunner [1] series of trimarans. Early in his career, Jim Brown was inspired by Arthur Piver. Jim is now retired. [1]
The boat's design goals were, "a lightweight, trailerable catamaran that was fast, fun to sail, had weekend accommodations for 2 or 3 and was priced below $35,000." The design was intended to reach a break-even point at a production rate of two boats per week and would be profitable at three boats per week. The design challenge was to build a ...
The Nacra 17 is a performance catamaran used for sailing. It was designed in 2011, went into production in 2012 and has been the focus of multihull sailing at the Olympic Games since its conception. The Nacra has been converted to a sailing hydrofoil for the 2020 Tokyo and 2024 Paris (Marseille) Olympics. [1]
Nacra Sailing was founded by sailboat designer Tom Roland who had previously designed the Alpha Cat, an 18-foot beach cat, in 1970. After this he designed a 36-foot, oversized one design beach catamaran as part of venture to start a professional sailboat racing series. About 10 of these were built, but the racing series didn't turn out to be ...
The Spirit of Dallas catamaran on White Rock Lake A Formula 16 beachable catamaran Powered catamaran passenger ferry at Salem, Massachusetts, United States. A catamaran (/ ˌ k æ t ə m ə ˈ r æ n /) (informally, a "cat") is a watercraft with two parallel hulls of equal size. The wide distance between a catamaran's hulls imparts stability ...
A catamaran ferry in Salem, Massachusetts A French catamaran trawler. The increasing popularity of catamaran since the 1960s is down to the added space, speed, shallow draft, and lack of heeling underway. The stability of a multihull makes sailing much less tiring for the crew, and is particularly suitable for families.
The M32 (formerly the Marstsrom 32) is a class of sailing catamaran designed by Göran Marström and Kåre Ljung [1] and first built in 2010 by Marstrom Composite AB. [2] The design and production rights were sold in 2013 to Aston Harald Composite AB led by Håkan Svensson and run by Killian Bushe.
The Lagoon 55 catamaran is a large ocean-going sailing catamaran that was designed by VPLP (a French based naval architecture firm founded by Marc Van Peteghem and Vincent Lauriot-Prévost). First built in France in 1987, it was one of the earliest large production cruising catamarans available both for private owners and for the yacht charter ...