New daysailor/racing Trimaran designs by Motive

Motive

Thanks ,Corley. Reducing the beam to fly the main hull has another effect -impossible to gage from video I've seen -and that is to increase the angle of heel of the boat when it does fly the main hull.

 

OH man... I think I'm in love... Just need a few modifications like a boom and rudder on the main hull and it'd be perfect.

 

An update from Motive Trimarans blog. To cope with high lateral loads they have been experiencing on the Motive 25 they have had new rudders designed and fitted and are constructing a new and stonger centerboard.

http://motivetrimarans.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/new-rudders-arrive-racing-cat.html

 

That's very interesting- Matt's a friend and just had his team paint my test model. Their workmanship is impeccable....

 

I was interested to read on the Motive trimarans blog in this article that a standard daggerboard rather than a pivoting centerboard is available and float lifting foils are optional as well as a traveler for the main. Since each boat is custom built I suppose that is not particularly difficult to implement.

http://www.motivetrimarans.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/merci-beaucoup-premiere-international.html

 

Thanks Doug, looks like a FUN (in capital letters) boat. It's the $100k+ price tag that's tough to bite off.