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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. Born in north Wales on 15 May 1933, he died in Thames, New Zealand on 11 December 2022, at the age of 89. [3]
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]
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 design has won several awards, including Best Multihull Sailing Yacht in Asia at the Christofle Yacht Style Awards Ceremony in Thailand, organized by Yacht Style Magazine in January 2019; the 2019 Asia Boating Award and the Best Sailing Multihull at the Singapore Yacht Show in April 2019 and the Best Multihull of the Year 2019 in the 50 feet and over category at the International Multihull ...
His first large design was the 52' trimaran, Juniper, built in southern Virginia and launched in 1981, later sailed around the world by Henk de Velde. [1] [3] In 1983 he started his design business, developing the concept of the forward cockpit or pilot house catamaran. [1] The first of the Atlantic Cats were launched in 1985. [1]
Toggle Designs subsection. 2.1 Monohulls. ... - died 2014) was an American multihull sailboat designer. ... Modern Sailing Catamarans [1] 1970: ...
A small waterplane area twin hull, better known by the acronym SWATH, is a catamaran design that minimizes hull cross section area at the sea's surface. Minimizing the ship's volume near the surface area of the sea , where wave energy is located, minimizes a vessel's response to sea state, even in high seas and at high speeds.
Richard "Dick" Newick (May 9, 1926 in Hackensack, New Jersey – August 28, 2013 in Sebastopol, California) [1] [2] [3] — more frequently known as Dick Newick — was a multihull sailboat designer. He grew up in Rutherford, New Jersey . [ 2 ]