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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 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.
A catamaranreviews.com review concluded, "Lagoon 50 catamaran is an appreciable option for someone who wants to settle somewhere between the Lagoon 52 and Lagoon 450.The Lagoon 50 particularly wins because of the generous amount of volume and room it offers which grants enough privacy for a family to be comfortable onboard. The performance has ...
VB-10,000 is a heavy-lift twin-gantry catamaran consisting of two truss space frames atop two barges.The design was derived from Versabar's earlier VB-4000 (aka Bottom Feeder), [1] [2] which was developed to clear debris from toppled oil drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.
In a 2013 Cruising World review, Herb McCormick wrote, "Down below, the innovative layout also received favorable marks. I've long admired cats that reserved the entire starboard hull for an owners suite with a dedicated stateroom that can be closed off for privacy from the central saloon via a sliding door and that includes a king-size double berth aft, a midship desk/vanity, and a large en ...
The design was built by the Lagoon catamaran division of Jeanneau in France and was the smallest catamaran in their product line. The division was later sold to Construction Navale Bordeaux (CNB) which became part of Groupe Beneteau. Production started in 1999 and the improved Lagoon 380 S2 model was introduced in 2003.
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 ...
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 ...