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Here is a Farrier Eagle for sale near Seattle. Just wanted to pass the info on to anyone who might be interested. The Craigslist ad reads: Selling a 1985 Pyramid Eagle Tramp trimaran. This boat also known as the “Haines Hunter Tramp” when made in Australia (the Pyramid Eagle model was made in Texas for […]
I arrived in the San Francisco Bay Area in the summer of 1965, and soon met up with a group of young radicals who saw that life on the water held out an alternative to an ordinary lifestyle. Those were the days of hippies, drugs, communes, geodesic domes, free love and various unconventional ideas being […]
One of Jim Brown’s most outstanding clients was a “can-do” individual named Mark Hassall. Jim talks about Mark here, and also features him on audio (as he was sailing thru a hurricane) here. Mark lived an amazing life, filled with incredible personal adventures. (Just listen to Jim’s audio about Mark in the above link). The […]
WHIRLAWAY By Jim Brown 11/20/2019 At the end of the last ice age, torrents of meltwater carved great gullies in the coast of what is now eastern Virginia. When the ice was gone, these watercourses were abandoned until the whole tectonic plate slowly sank – it is sinking still – allowing the sea to flood […]
BUY THE BOAT BACK In this caper, Jim shares the story of his summer 2019 ride on one of his “cattlemarans” in the Caribbean. Jim sails along on a big catamaran with his entrepreneur-boatbuilder-sailor friend Doug Jane to deliver the boat to a customer. Lots of fun and challenges on this trip … with a […]
Published in Multihulls Magazine, Nov-Dec 2009, pp. 60-65 by Michael Reddy – michael @ reddyworks.com 1 – Alive and Well at 39 On January 2nd, 2005, I drove towards the Nelson Sailing Center, in Toms River, New Jersey. It was Friday afternoon, and I was supposed to get checked out in a Bristol 30, in […]
As you already may know, Russell Brown is the son of famous multihull designer Jim Brown. Although he’d never say so himself, Russ is probably one of the most knowledgeable individuals around when it comes to building boats in wood, fiberglass and epoxy. After many years of building and repairing different boats, there is no […]
The new charter catamaran named NATIVE SOUL, built by one of Jim’s longtime boatbuilding friends, was launched in November 2018. It will offer rides in the Caribbean during winter, and out of Greenport, NY in summer. For more information about this commercial catamaran, including booking info, see it’s homepage here: https://sailnativesoul.com/ Some pictures from it’s […]
Sailor Adrian Ezard shares the below with us regarding his now-completed cross Atlantic passage. You can read about his trip of FB (Facebook) if you have a FB account. ………………. Adrian writes: Thought you may like to know I bought a CC35 in Canada earlier in the year and sailed it back to the UK […]
Askari Searunner 40 Trimaran From Chrissi Serini Thursday, June 28, 2018 10:07 AM This is the story of Askari, what i know about her past, how I acquired her, the wonderful people who helped me bring her back to life, and what i am doing right now with her. Hope you enjoy the story. (Be […]
Summary THE FAILED DROWNING OF WOODY BROWN By Jim Brown This is a thumbnail biography of the man who designed and built the first modern, light weight modern multihull, 1947. The manuscript had to be somewhat condensed for Cruising World Magazine, where it served as a eulogy after Woody Brown’s death in 2008. Woody’s life […]
Date Happened: 1985 Sailing a Jim Brown designed Searunner 31 Trimaran up New York Harbor and the East River to Oyster Bay, Long Island, without a working motor, at night. Click here to read Fred’s tale (in pdf)
THE CASE FOR THE CRUISING TRIMARAN (PREFACE) by Jim Brown Date happened 2010/3/15 Author’s preface to the third edition of this 1979 book on multihull safety. AUTHOR’S PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION OF THE CASE FOR THE CRUISING TRIMARAN By Jim Brown Since this book was first published in 1979, the modern multihull has changed […]
OF BOATING FRIENDS AND DINGHIES, by TIM MANN Date happened: 1972 Two rousing sea stories from the early aquabatic days of modern multihulls. Summary OF BOATING FRIENDS & DINGHIES Tim Mann was my youngest client. (Second youngest, Chris White). He built his Searunner 25 at age sixteen and cruised the California coast extensively in it. […]
Date happened: 1957>59 Third chapter for Jim Brown’s memoir of modern multihull history and lore. Summary Chapter 3 The Skipper THE SKIPPER The author becomes a disciple of Arthur Piver, the Father of the Modern Trimaran. (Other key multihull personalities are featured in subsequent chapters). Story of author’s commitment to multihulls; countercultural schism between multis […]
Summary Date happened: 19 69>72 Second chapter for Jim Brown’s memoir of modern multihull history and lore. ABSTRACT Chapter 2 – Promise Made The author meets his first and most formative mentor, an early multihull pioneer. Schooner bumming together, they voyage from Miami to Colombia in 1956 with a very game young woman in their […]
Summary AMONG THE MULTIHULLS (CHAPTER 1) by JIM BROWN Date happened: 1969>72 First chapter for Jim Brown’s memoir of modern multihull history and lore. Has many illustrations on our VIDEOS page or at our YouTube channel. ABSTRACT Chapter 1: To Build A Baby Designing and building SCRIMSHAW, the author’s family boat, Walt Glaser’s Freudian meaning […]
HURRICANE, Mark Hassall (Full AUDIO) Date happened: 11/71 Length: 43 minutes Narration made while surviving a tropical cyclone at sea in a 37’ trimaran Jim Brown’s REMARKS About this unique OutRig Audio posting … Mark Hassall’s Contact: Deceased During Mark Hassall’s first circumnavigation in the early 1970s (he went around again beginning in the late […]
Summary Date happened: 1960>70 The history of C/S/K Catamarans, the first true multihull yachts. 25th Anniversary Issue • January/February 2000 MULTIHULLS Magazine The full article written by Rudy Choy that first appeared in MULTIHULLS magazine. This article, originally printed in MULTIHULLS Magazine, is the definitive story of the remarkable partnership between several trail blazing multihull […]
Summary Date happened: mid 1960s Date posted: 2010/3/1 A selection from this new book (in preparation) about seven years of wild-oats cruising in an early trimaran. — John Glennie is the author of The Spirit of Rose-Noelle, 119days Adrift, his gripping personal account of one of the greatest survival stories of all time. He and […]
Summary Date happened: mid 1960s A selection from this new book (in preparation) about seven years of wild-oats cruising in an early trimaran. — John Glennie is the author of The Spirit of Rose-Noelle, 119 days Adrift, his gripping personal account of one of the greatest survival stories of all time. He and his two […]
Summary Date happened: 1955>75 Date posted: 2010/3/1 Opener for Jim Brown’s memoir of modern multihull history and lore. Author’s contact: outrig.org@gmail.com Multihull pioneer Jim Brown, after fifty years of designing, building and seafaring in catamarans, trimarans and proas, here offers a brief Foreword to Volume One of his personal memoir. In two pages he describes […]
SUMMARY LIGHT BRIGADE By Gary Baigent Gary Baigent offers a unique perspective on the evolution of modern light weight sailing yachts from the small nation with the big image that led the way. This exerpt does not relate specifically to multihulls, but instead to the essence of multihulls, which is light weight. When reading this […]
Summary Date happened: 1947>75 Date posted: 2010/3/1 Profiles of five pivotal pioneers from the early-modern multihull advent. From WoodenBoat magazine, May-June 1998. ANNOTATION: This article was commissioned by WoodenBoat magazine editor Mat Murphy for publication in the May-June 2008 issue, which appeared just prior to the WoodenBoat Show of that year. Held at Mystic Seaport […]
Jim’s Brown’s friend Bruce Matlack is the new owner of Jim’s old boat SCRIMSHAW. He and his som Charlie are currently cruising on the 31-foot Searunner trimaran in the Bahamas. They left Palm Beach Florida and are in the Abaco Islands, heading southeast soon. If you’d like to follow Bruce and Charlie’s travels they are […]
The following link goes to the webpage of the GOLDEN OLDIES MULTIHULLS ASSOCIATION (in France): GOLDEN OLDIES MULTIHULLS ASSOCIATION Philippe Echelle 33(O) 688 09 46 68 philippe.echelle@wanadoo.fr http://www.goldenoldies.biz/ There are a few videos on the site that might be of interest to multihullers. (Thanks to Larry Fortunoff for this information).
PLAY IT WHEN I’M DEAD Wishing that I had collected more voice recordings when my subjects were alive, this caper is offered while the subject IS alive, miraculously. My particular friend Bruce Matlack tells of just one of many youthful exploits from back when he was trying to get to Tahiti without his own boat. […]
ANCHORAGE CONVERSATIONS (Part One) This is what happen when two or more old boat nuts find themselves in a secure anchorage with old friends, a lobster in the pot, and “…A little more than enough to drink, for thirst is a dangerous thing.” (Jerome K. Jerome) …………………. Click on the audio bar below to listen […]
A CONSUMMATE CRUISER SPEAKS Here’s a guy who sailed in multihulls as an infant, and now owns DELPHYS, a 34′ Searunner trimaran which has been called, by John Marples (one of her designers), “The most developed Searunner in the world.” And her usage? Well, with her owner/builder crew of Mark Johnson and his wife Mariam, […]
BOATBUILDING — WHICH KIND? After doing several interview capers, we have here the results of some interesting comparisons, resulting from hurricane damage, between good old sheet plywood construction, and “cold molded” or Constant Camber (CC) construction. Design differences between the Searunner 34 and the CC 35 are discussed, as are the challenges of getting good […]