Small trimarans under 20'

17ft and 21ft moulds in Thailand available for production

We intend to use these boats for disabled sailing, but we could make the moulds available if that would help us reach our project.




both models make use of recycled hobie or nacra hulls.

 

Tri's for disabled sailing

Very interesting boats! I have always been concerned about using a small trimaran for disabled sailing. I know one guy sailed round Britain(I think) in a Challenger tri disabled but I believe he was accompanied by another boat. How does your project plan on ensuring safety for those participating? Can the boats be righted in the event of a capsize or pitchpole?

 

The challenger tri is indeed very popular within the disabled sailor community. I am intending to use bigger amas with more buoyancy instead of the recycled hobbies, pour the boat with sufficient buoyancy, add mast buoyancy and most important install an easy to use reef system with audible alarm once certain wind speeds are reached. Comments welcome

 

Tell me Taniwha do you have a New Zealand conection? Yuo must have with a Maori name such as yours?

Bas

 

Sorry spelling not good too much wine

 

I've just realized that I've made recent enquiries about these kit boats and thought the enquiry was Australian based. I've received no reply. Maybe you might like to give me an update on price and availability?

Bas

 

No I haven't I use to have a boat named Taniwha, a Trisbal 42, that is when I took the username.

 

Paul is indeed based in Australia, he let us use the moulds for the benefit of our charity. If we can find a way where it would benefit the charity we could talk about it. I have no hulls available at the moment but should not take too long to have one.

 

I suppose you are talking about Geoff... whose ambitious project goes back to the Trimaran Challenger. The boat was designed aleady in 1979 by multihull designer Rod McAlpine Downie... a beautiful tiny multihull.





As mentioned, probably the most prominent handicaped sailor (quadriplegic disabled) is Geoff Holt from UK who successfully managed it to sail on a Trimaran Challenger around the coast of Britain in 2007 (~ 1,400-1,450 nm) over a period of two months, covering up to sixty sea miles in a single day.

The project started dramatically when Geoff was washed off his tiny boat shortly after the start line and his life jacket didn’t open. Instead he didn’t gave up and made it.



More details about and the video here: Sailability UK: seaworthy Trimaran Challenger (single handed / one design)

 

From the Ted Warren thread a really neat small tri by Chris from Sweden:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YllX_aS7Iek


On board video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqfP-7ZSV1I#action=share

 

Bazooka

Bazooka Trimaran-maybe be more here: http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/multihulls/bazooka-trimaran-going-back-into-production-54359.html
https://www.facebook.com/Ezifold-Yachts-LTD-212821925457790/timeline/?ref=hl

 

It's interesting that these boats were never a commercial success. You would think a basic sliding beam trimaran that utilized cat hulls as floats and rig from the same would be attractive to potential purchasers.

They were marketed under the "Predator" brand name in Australia for years but never seemed to gain much of a following which is surprising as the larger model was quite spacious and relatively speaking affordable pocket cruiser or daysailor.

I often think the problem is perhaps that the older monohull trailer sailors are just so durable and just keep doing what they do well enough there isn't any incentive for people to buy a new boat.

 

I can write some more info about the spec of Chryz10 tri, and lots more photo ad detail. Will come back soon with more data. , Chris

 

Funny you guys should bring this up. Just today I bought the top 26 feet of a Rhodes 19 mast. It's about 30 lbs, aluminum wingmast. It's a big noodle with no diamond wires, so I'll have to get diamond spreaders on it and figure out the canting arrangement for it, as well as make some sails.

 

Updated spec of Chryz10

Updated spec of Chryz10 with Code0 & Spinn
https://cholsson.wordpress.com/2015/10/12/updated-spec/


Hope you like it And hoping for wind to test the new sail

Chriz