Random Multihull pictures

The VPLP designed superyacht/catamaran "Hemisphere".

 

For a contrast to the VPLP above: Misguided Angel (1980's) and minimalist tender, Putiki Bay, Waiheke Island.

 

Gary, what's the story behind this person of exemplary conduct or virtue, having or showing faulty judgement or reasoning?
Two different masts?

 

Hydroptere.ch smoking across Lake Geneva in training for the upcoming records season.

 

Faulty judgement, yes, this'll be true, as Kiwis say, but not so sure about exemplary conduct and definitely not virtue.
But there were some advantages - like plenty of power low down which was good fun hard reaching ... but there were plenty mistakes, indeed - like half wishbones which flexed and allowed the mains to belly up with too much fall off. Also the two 45 degree angled foils were not good beating to windward. And I built in twist to them like a helicopter blade ... not worth the trouble.
But two rotating wing mast/soft sails can work - like Cox's Bay Skimmer.

 

I was going to post one of those sailing pictures with a pretty lady but they all asked me not to as their boy friends might see.......

 

Tennant Turissimo being converted to a powercat by it's owner at Allcraft marine.

 

From Voiles et Voiliers, sailing in Tahiti.

 

Hi Hasyb, you're implying two different masts, no, no, never, never; it's just the perspective of the photograph. Here are a couple more jpegs.

 

OK, Thanks, looks pretty radical with the canted floats and two masts; over square?
And just curious, what was the theory of the canted floats, planing surface?
This concept evolved into Groucho?

 

The canted floats (yes, platform was well over square) was just an idea to get more lift when the boat was pressed, yet still retain a narrow(ish) waterline beam. It was a continuation of what a local foiler nutter here in Auckland, Noel Fuller (Noel Foiler, sorry, silly joke) did on his little Sabrina foiling tri, (see photograph) except his floats were like thickened foils, (floils, he called them) but of low aspect - I was attempting the angled gains but with high aspect ratio foils through the floats as well. This was in the early 1980's.
The weakness of Sabrina was that the little 14 foot boat was not good to windward, in fact piss-poor, but fast reaching and running ... and I thought my deeper foils would alter that ... but it didn't. Also I suffered the delusion that the windward foil would hook the water and counter leeway ... it doesn't. You need vertical or near vertical boards to do that, just imo.

 

Amazing photo. I'm going to have to search Voilles et Voillers now...

Dan

 

I have always like this photo. Taken in 1987 during the first Plymouth Multihull Grand Prix. It shows my wife sailing our 24ft Strider, me sailing our 35ft Banshee and Peter Phillips sailing his 80ft Shuttleworth Novanet.

This was the end of the first lap, so we were all sailing at the same speed.

My wife won the event, I came second. Better yet, this was in the days of cash prizes. Between us we won GBP750, say USD1200. Enough back then for a new Strider mainsail

Richard Woods of Woods Designs

www.sailingcatamarans.com

 

Thats pretty cool, Richard!

 

Photos from the Transat Jacques Vabre organization.