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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.
Arthur Piver (/ ˈ p aɪ v ər /; "Piver rhymes with diver"; 1910–1968) was a World War II pilot, an amateur sailor, author, printshop owner and renowned boatbuilder who lived in Mill Valley on San Francisco Bay and became "the father of the modern multihull."
He constructed his first trimaran, a 40-footer with $600 that he borrowed from his grandmother in 1961. Although influenced by Piver's designs, Horstman diverged by using Boeing technology to make flush-decked sailboat ""with accommodation in all three hulls—the dreadnaught class of trimarans" [ 2 ]
searunner 37 near the equator and international date line Searunner 37 on San Francisco Bay 1980 The Searunner 37 is a trimaran sailboat designed by Jim Brown in the 1960s. [ 1 ] It is the second largest boat in the Searunner series, the largest being the Searunner 40 .
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.
Crowhurst became convinced that the trimaran model, with its potential for extreme speed, would serve him best to win the race. The Electron was based on designs for Arthur Piver’s Victress-class trimaran. However, significant structural and aesthetic deviations from the original designs were made at Crowhurst's request, in order to make the ...
Christina Haack asks her second husband, Ant Anstead, to join The Flip Off as a guest judge in the upcoming 4th episode. On Feb. 12, episode 3 offered a sneak preview of his tough judging as the ...
The word trimaran is a portmanteau of tri and (cata)maran, [16] a term that is thought to have been coined by Victor Tchetchet, a pioneering modern multihull designer, born in Ukraine (at that time part of the Russian Empire). [17]