Trimarans 30' to 50'

The Tony Grainger designed trimaran Ocean Emu has a bit of a chequered history losing a float at one stage and being rescued by John Cadwallader with 44 gallon drums under the beam stubs and repaired. Since then she has had another rebuild at Ashby Boatbuilders where they did some major structural and cosmetic work as well as painting the boat green.

 

ocean emu.

Yes I watched it race around Darwin Harbour before the Ambon race (i think).
It certainly looked great. Rod richards on his 40' tri (the one before verbatum/australia child) Nicol maybe? was also there.

Sadly it actually had two major structural failures. A float fell off in the Gulf of capentaria whilst being delivered after the race and was rebuilt. It then had the major failure in Bass Strait and was abandoned. Not sure how many floats were still attached when recovered in Queensland.

Rebuilt and then by the looks was rebuilt again. See..http://www.whitsundaytimes.com.au/news/yacht-does-lazarus-to-enter-hamo-race-week/2533164/

After pressure on "sailing anarchy" Tony sort of updated his web site to acknowledge the two failures.

Pretty chequered history for a performance cruiser racer built in 88? A great looking boat though from what I remember in its purple paintjob.

 

Another classic trimaran that is still doing well is Jan and Meade Gougeon's 35' trimaran Adagio. One of the earliest multihulls that used wood/epoxy construction and recently fitted with new rags by North Sails:

http://www.northsails.com/us/news/adagio-old-dog-new-tricks

 

Wings of Fantasy, The lovely trimaran built by Chris and Jenny Smith. It's a modified Buccaneer, they cruised around Australia in her with their young girls. Sadly Chris passed away a few years ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Jenny down in Launceston. She wrote a book about their trip called "On wings of Fantasy" it's a good read if you can find a copy. Photo thanks to Craig Jayvee.

 

no connection to either of these for sale, but both have heaps of pics. Krisis, Kraken 40, one time top race boat and converted for cruising some years back. And the Newick which is I think a Limmershin - according to the designer a cruising influenced redux of Moxie.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/boats-marine/yachts/multihull/auction-1086159906.htm

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/boats-marine/yachts/multihull/auction-1155674733.htm

 

From a cruising perspective I like the 'Saloon' main cabin style of White Wings and the Hammerhead 34.

 

Thanks to Jason Gard who has forwarded a write up of his visit to the N53 trimaran "Finn":

http://trimaranproject.blogspot.com.au/p/banuls-53-trimaran.html

 

Andrew has posted a photo of the main hull of the build of his Shuttleworth 39' racing trimaran. There is a bit more detail on this boat on my blog:

http://trimaranproject.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/new-shuttleworth-40-racercruiser.html

 

Very cool to see a 'Bullfrog' Crowther 40 in the Coastal Classic. Ave Gitana.

 

Somewhere else I posted on here I had a set of Farrier Command 10 plans digitised, but do you think I can find the thread...???

OK< so it's an older design, but it was desinged as either fixed beam or folder, and predated the F31 referred to earlier in the thread....

Anyone interested in the Command 10 send me a PM.