Historical multihulls

My experience with the Stilleto was limited and a very long time ago. I don't know enough about them to be talking critically about them, so I'm sorry I did.
It would be interesting to know specifics about how they were built. That was a long time ago to be using high temperature pre-pregs. I wonder how the molds were built.

 

Russell,

My question was aimed at whether the issues were related to be composite construction or fittings which could have been fixed without changing the basic nature of the hulls.
Position of the single centerboard vs daggers was known long ago.
But issues like the fittings of the tiller setup could have been improved with relatively small changes - and should have been. Might have been for all I know.

 

Fury was a US high technology constructed, (pre-impregnated carbon/Kevlar with high temperature aircraft resin over balsa core) Paul Lindenberg design (18 x10 metre) and entered in the 1984 OSTAR, sailed by owner Hugh McCoy.

 

John Westell designs

Any one had experience with Trixia, John Willie or the Ocean Birds
as I hardly see any details on the Internet

Raced / cruised 28 Ft Trixia out of the Hamble in the 70s would like to know where she ended up. Fixed beams so was a prototype

 

Australian Lindsay Cunningham's clever and refined Quest 111, C Class catamaran, 1972.

 

A Kiwi in fact; or at least he lived there in his early years. Still, you can't have him AND John Spencer who was born in Oz, so we'll take Lindsay unless you give up John.

 

Stiletto

I had started to write a reply to the history of Stiletto, but a careless swipe of my keyboard erased it, so I will forget it at this moment

Yes, Stiletto was the largest piece of pre-preg/honeycomb outside the aircraft industry at the time. But also remember it was very principally designed as a trailer boat, so some items may have not been as 'robust' as they might have been.
http://www.thebeachcats.com/news/124/stiletto-27---25-years-later/


Stiletto is coming back into production...
https://sailstiletto.com/own-a-stiletto-catamaran/

PS: If I remember correctly the original project was funded by a retired test pilot for the 747 airplanes.

 

Thanks CT, I should have known he was a Kiwi ... he being such a brilliant designer and all.
So the brilliant Cunninghams and the Bethwaites, Kiwis ... of course, not from Oz - just resided there ... as many from the shaky isles do?

 

Video of sailing on Be Crazy 3 (Biscuits Cantreau 3) at the 2016 Golden oldies Trophy at Port Carmague in France.

https://cdn.streamlike.com/uc/getCo...rn=true&module=uc&action=getMediaHTMLShortUrl

 

Bc3

Thanks, Corley-that was great.....

 

Newick 40 with half moon floats at Little Shoal Bay, Auckland.

 

Trimaran "Lotus" of the canadian designer Stephen Brochocki.

I can't find any information about the trimaran "Lotus" of the canadian designer Stefan Brochocki. At WWII he was Polish pilot of the bombers. After WWII He was the designer of the aircrafts. Together with the Witold Kasper built a BKB glider. I read that sailboats and sailboardis he designed too.

 

Has anyone got any information on the whereabouts and/or activity of the completely re-built "Bagatelle". :?:

 

Here is some history for sale;

http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/nowr...l-class-twin-hull-dorado-catamaran/1112838646

 

could this love of the vintage multis be the result of a typical decision that was reached emotionally (hey, for me too the aesthetics of the old newicks, the crowther Twiggy Mk1, etcetc. is unbeaten) & then is justified (or not quite, imho) by rational arguments, supported by anecdotal evidence?
the vintage-car-analogy is fitting: unbeatable the aesthetics of an old alfa romeo spider ("the graduate"), beautifully kept old british cars around here (Austria) - but "good & safe" in a contemporary sense? no way! deathtraps is what they were compared to todays run-of-the-mill cars which are virtually indistinguishable from one another...(and race results don't come into this at all!)