Seven Sisters tri, with wave-piercing amas

So sorry
Small consolation, but it looks as though he was able to accomplish some of his dreams before he left.

 

Seven Sisters

From Scuttlebutt Europe today:

Nearly three weeks overdue on a passage from El Salvador to Acapulco, the unusual 40-ft 'hybrid wave-piercer' sloop Seven Sisters was recently found by the Coast Guard, upside-down 400 miles southwest of Acapulco. Thomas Kardos, the boat's owner/inventor, aka 'The Kite Man of Berkeley', was nowhere to be found. There were indications that Kardos, described as being "in his mid-50s," may have tried to strap himself to the main hull of his overturned boat.

Seven Sisters was a very unusual design in that she had a main hull like a monohull, but little if any keel. She also had two wave-piercing amas, thus the 'hybrid' name, but wasn't particularly beamy. She had no boom, and had an electric outboard for auxiliary power.

Kardos was as unusual as his boat. Flying a hang glider, he stunned the 76,000 spectators - and both teams on the field - during the second quarter of the 1979 Cal-USC football game at Berkeley's Memorial Stadium by landing on the 10-yard line.

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Video of the 1979 stunt: www.youtube.com/embed/pED8hx3lXn8

 

I don't trust http://www.latitude38.com/lectronic/lectronicday.lasso?date=2014-12-01 : 'Photo Courtesy U.S. Coast Guard' under the old photo from Polish newspapers...

btw, have a look at http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f122/boat-seven-sisters-found-capsized-137041.html and some opinions about 'seven sisters'