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He spent much of his life in San Diego, California, beginning to design multihulls in the 1950s, starting with catamarans. [1] His full-time multihull development work began in 1968. [ 1 ]
Constant Camber 26 is a 26 ft (7.9 m) cruising sloop trimaran sailboat designed in the 1970s by John Marples featuring berths for two adults and two children. [1] [2] The constant camber hull is constructed using a single master template to produce each panel, resulting in a design with unchanging curvature, imparting extraordinary strength similar to an eggshell.
In January 1995 Sail magazine named the F-27 as one of several boat designs that "had a significant and positive impact on sailing over the past 25 years". [1] The F-27 was inducted into the American Sailboat Hall of Fame on 29 January 2004. [1] In 2016, Sailing magazine's technical editor Bob Perry described the F-27 as "a great boat". [9]
Jim Brown stayed with Piver's narrow-waisted hulls while introducing the centerboard, center cockpit, and cutter rig. Of the 47 multihulls we spoke outside U.S. waters, 13 were Brown designs. While poor payload capacity and hobby-horsing are owner complaints with the 31 and 37, his 40-footer gets high marks.
2 Designs. Toggle Designs subsection. 2.1 Monohulls. 2.2 Catamarans. 2.3 Trimarans. ... Racing and Cruising Trimarans; 2008: Tracks on the Water: My Life in Yacht ...
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.
Neel 45 is a cruising trimaran designed by Joubert-Nivelt [2] [4] ... being awarded 'Most Innovative' for 2013 and garnering compliments for its interior design, ...
During Crowther's career, over 2500 of his designs were built. [3] A notable design was the trimaran Spirit of America, an early user of GRP-foam sandwich construction featuring composite beams with unidirectional fibres and turned-down ends. Crowther also developed 'bulbous bows' to reduce pitching, and thus increase speed when sailing upwind ...