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Recreational sailing catamarans and trimarans gained popularity during the 1960s and 1970s. [8] [17] Amateur development of the modern sailing trimaran started in 1945 with the efforts of Victor Tchetchet, a Ukrainian émigré to the US, who built two trimarans made of marine plywood, which were about 24 feet (7.3 metres) long. He is credited ...
The relationship between monohulls & multihulls. A multihull is a boat or ship with more than one hull, whereas a vessel with a single hull is a monohull.The most common multihulls are catamarans (with two hulls), and trimarans (with three hulls).
Wave-piercing catamarans (strictly speaking they are trimarans, with a central hull and two outriggers) employ a low-buoyancy bow on each hull that is pointed at the water line and rises aft, up to a level, to allow each hull to pierce waves, rather than ride over them. This allows higher speeds through waves than for a conventional catamaran.
The following is a partial list of sailboat types and sailing classes, including keelboats, dinghies, and multihull (catamarans and trimarans). Olympic classes
catamaran = two symmetric hulls; proa = two asymmetric hulls, reverse-shunting (interchangeable bow/stern) trimaran = three hulls; quadrimaran = four hulls;
The Prindle 18 is an American catamaran sailing dinghy that was designed by Geoffrey Prindle as a racer and first built in 1977. [1] [2] [3]Geoffrey Prindle had started out as a surfboard manufacturer but was also successful racing Hobie 14 catamarans and started his own line of boats, starting with the Prindle 16.
Wētā racing on Huntington Lake California High Serra Regatta 2017 Wētā features. The Wētā 4.4 Trimaran is a 4.4-metre (14-foot) sailing dinghy conceived and developed in New Zealand from 2001 to 2006 by Roger and Chris Kitchen and others with original drawings by TC Design's Tim Clissold.
The Prindle 18-2 is a recreational sailboat, built predominantly of fiberglass.It has a fractional sloop rig with aluminum spars and a fully-battened mainsail.The dual symmetrical hulls have raked stems, plumb transoms, dual transom-hung, kick-up rudders controlled by a tiller and dual, retractable centerboards.