Historical multihulls

Discussion in 'Multihulls' started by Gary Baigent, Feb 26, 2012.

  1. brian eiland
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    Magic Hemple Dragonfly

    Magic Hemple was a 25' foot racing Dragonfly that won the Round Britian and Ireland Race. That was the upper length limit on the proposed Micro-Multihull Class at the time.
     

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    I have reason to believe that kurt did design outter hulls with elongation and sugar scoops. My boat was also wider and had a smyth rotating rig. Also had updated foil and rudder. the main hull was also elongated with upturned sugar scoop and very light construction. The working sails were by Berig a full batten main and full batton jib with a camber spar. I added a bowsprit and screecher. For its time a very hot little boat with few if any vices. I believe that if built with carbon technology it would still be a marvel even by todays standards. Ed.
     
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    Sounds a very nice boat Ed. I've only seen 1 in New Zealand. Small production tris are very uncommon here.
     
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    Firefly 26 tri

    Here was my effort to bring to market a small trailerable trimaran. I was the first North American importer of the Dragonfly, but the Danish builder could not supply product for myself, nor his Canadian appointee. I redesigned the vessel, and funded the building of new molds.

    Regrettably the project took me to bankruptcy when substandard tooling was first built (too cold of a shop for proper cure), then problems with investor needed to continue the project.

    http://www.runningtideyachts.com/trimaran/

    You can see where we lengthened both the main hull and the amas, a feature the original Danish builder subsequently adopted.

    I had really high hopes for this project...but only built 6-7 boats before finances and partnership disolutionment took it down.

    What a FUN boat to sail.
     

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    These, of course, are not historical multihulls ... but the historical photograph is too good not to show you. These are M Class 18 foot monohulls (Logan design) plus a couple of Idle Alongs (IA's) racing on Auckland's Waitemata Harbour near Westhaven; this before the bridge was built so it must be in the early 1950's. Boatbuilder Jim Dennelly (sp) gave me the shot, originally a print from Whites Aviation.
     

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    Why is he continuously pumping the tiller in that video. :?:
     
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    I've steered early Sundreamer many miles; the tiller does not want to be moved so much, almost arbitrarily sawing - it seems by the helmsman in video. That is just slowing the boat. However I noticed there was plenty weather helm in the latter part of the video; I never remembered that occurring if the sails were set correctly. Maybe they had the daggerboards too deep.
     
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    "Maybe they had the daggerboards too deep."

    Or the mainsail sheeted in too much on the outhaul.
    A common mistake of some sailors. :eek:
     
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    In the 70s, there was a tri in Cardif, Wales called SERENDIPIDY TRI
    Anyone know what type it was?

    Its the boat that started multihulls in my family, Dad admired it at its mooring whilst working on a tunnel under Tiger Bay.
     
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    The somewhat historical Ocean Racing trimaran "Spirit" has been modified for a bit more comfort but still stays true to the lightweight motto. This video covers sailing the boat back from Fiji to Brisbane and put up some video of the boat in cruise mode on his blog and a bit of a look at how she is fitted out inside.

    http://youtu.be/K_e6gVb7mvE



    and the blog is here

    http://trimaranspirit.blogspot.com.au/
     

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