Marcelo Penna Yacht Design together with Marcelo Penna Engineering, a Spanish design studio had a nice very rich client arrive wanting a support...
Baltic produce very high quality monohull fast cruising yachts. They are a direct competitor to Swan yachts. Baltic yachts don’t talk to the...
Peterbike. Realities was also named Leyton Realities. There is a Youtube video of it doing 33 knots on the web. Here is a few shots of the cockpit...
This is about 2 racing tris that used the same hull moulds but were built 3 years apart. The first tri was built in 2020 and was named Planet...
This is about a trimaran and one mans determination to keep it sailing at all costs. In 1978 Olympus Photo sailed by Mike Birch finished just 98...
A short one for those who like the environment. Genetically modified silkworms producing silk stronger than Kevlar in China. Scientists in China...
This is an interesting piece of research that may be appropriate to smaller multihulls. Large power trimarans have a design problem of how low you...
A short one about the way New Zealanders have a can-do attitude. The jpegs below are real. A 65 foot “trailer sailor” hull. The guy is moving his...
Part 2 Hughes 30 cat. Build.
This is about 2 catamarans with the same hulls and rigs. Kurt Hughes designed many years ago a 30 foot open bridge deck catamaran and later...
The Bali Catsmart is the smallest, full bridge deck cruising catamaran from Bali (offshoot of Catana) and was designed by Olivier Poncin, had the...
For those who would like to understand the differences, benefits of Searunners versus Cross trimarans the following thread was an interesting one...
Cavalier Mk2 said he thought that the Searunner 31 vented wing was a great mid cockpit trimaran. With about 400 Searunner 31’s built since 1972,...
Paul. The water ballast on a G32 is just 2 tanks, 1 per hull. You either fill them or empty them at your choice. The majority of the time they...
The following is about a small very high performance racing trimaran that was designed by Darren Newton. The tri was designed on a low budget for...