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A design engineer by profession, Cross worked for Ford Motor Company, then spent 16 years with General Dynamics' Convair Division in their department of wind-tunnel model design and towing basin testing. [1]
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.
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.
Cite this page; Get shortened URL; Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... The Discovery 20 is a 1980s era trimaran sailboat design by Chris White. [3] [4]
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 ...
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.
The Searunner 31 is a trimaran sailboat designed by Jim Brown in the 1960s. [2] It is the most popular boat in the Searunner series, [1] which includes models from 25 ft (7.6 m) to 40 ft (12 m). The Searunner 31 is a small, trailerable trimaran sailboat known for its performance, versatility, and seaworthiness.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Racing and Cruising Trimarans; 2008: Tracks on the Water: My Life in Yacht Design [2] References