by OutRig | Sep 18, 2020 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media, Multihull Writing
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...
by OutRig | Apr 22, 2020 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
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...
by OutRig | Jun 29, 2019 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media, Multihull Writing
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...
by OutRig | Oct 30, 2018 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
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...
by OutRig | Jul 2, 2018 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media, Multihull Writing
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...
by OutRig | Jan 22, 2018 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
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...
by OutRig | Jan 17, 2018 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media, Multihull Audios, Nautical Lore Podcasts
Jim appreciates and loves hearing from the listeners of these podcasts! If you feel you’d like to donate any amount to Jim in appreciation for the work he put into creating these podcast audios then you may do so via the Paypal button below. And if not, then...
by OutRig | Jan 3, 2018 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media, Multihull Audios, Nautical Lore Podcasts
Jim appreciates and loves hearing from the listeners of these podcasts! If you feel you’d like to donate any amount to Jim in appreciation for the work he put into creating these podcast audios then you may do so via the Paypal button below. And if not, then...
by OutRig | Nov 3, 2017 | About Catamarans, About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media, Multihull Audios, Nautical Lore Podcasts
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)...
by OutRig | Oct 17, 2017 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
IS THIS SAFE? by Tm Mann – 10/16/2017 Here’s a mini sea story I don’t think you’ve heard before: I’m taking Al Baroni, the prospective buyer for Spice, my SeaRunner 37, on a sailing trip across the Alenuihaha Channel to Maui; he’s...
by OutRig | Jun 4, 2017 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media, Multihull Audios, Nautical Lore Podcasts
BLIND SAILOR? (Part 2) In this portion of our telephone ramble, John Patterson and I speak of the safety of small boats at sea, dragging drogues, sailor’s burn out, avoiding collision, contending with disability and more....
by OutRig | May 24, 2017 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media, Multihull Audios, Nautical Lore Podcasts
BLIND SAILOR? (Far from it) Speaking by cell phone from the Island of Culebra, John Patterson tells of his life-long quest of seafaring, but he begins by designing and building his own boats. Starting with childhood experiences on the water, John shares many nuggets...
by OutRig | May 12, 2017 | About Catamarans, About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media, Multihull Audios, Nautical Lore Podcasts
SMALL BOAT FUN IN CEDAR KEY In this capercast Jim shares about his trip to the yearly small boat gathering in Cedar Key, Florida. He tells a couple great stories, along with some details about interesting developments in the boating marketplace. He begins, however,...
by OutRig | Feb 7, 2017 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media, Multihull Audios, Nautical Lore Podcasts, Other Multihull Stuff
THE WAY TO CAPE THANK GOD Intending to describe family cruising with one’s wife as literally First Mate, I get hung up in the details of our cruise through the San Blas Islands and to Cartegena, Colombia (our favorite port). From there, we beat up through the...
by OutRig | Feb 1, 2017 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media, Multihull Audios, Nautical Lore Podcasts
GREATEST BOAT RIDE Story of SCRIMSHAW’s greatest one-day boat ride, her transit of the Panama Canal. Despite some very humbling episodes, and eighteen years of trying to get back to the Caribbean, we change oceans at the isthmus that shows us five different...
by OutRig | Jan 26, 2017 | About Trimarans, Multihull Audios, Nautical Lore Podcasts, Other Multihull Stuff
RIVALRY We should all get equal time to talk about our kids, but that would need we all have Podcasts. In this Caper, I tell of our experiences while family cruising in a too-small boat when the Captain has a too-big temper and his kids have a normal sibling rivalry....
by OutRig | Jan 19, 2017 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media, Nautical Lore Podcasts
OF WHALES, CALMS AND ALTAR WINE This account of an ocean passage illustrates the physical and mental adjustments often required of uninitiated crew. A case is made for the gradual approach, taking time for rest, humor, and perhaps a little “panther piss,”...
by OutRig | Jan 16, 2017 | About Catamarans, About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
One of our readers alerted me to a couple webpages related to sailor / boat designer Thomas Firth Jones. Mr. Jones passed away a number of years ago. Thomas Firth Jones published a number of books during his career, including one entitled, Multihull Voyaging, which is...
by OutRig | Jan 12, 2017 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media, Multihull Audios, Nautical Lore Podcasts
OCEAN RACING THEN AND NOW On Christmas Day just past, a remarkable solo circumnavigation speed record was set by a Frenchman sailing a big multihull. He had made five previous attempts and finally succeeded. At the same time, other incredible speeds were being...
by OutRig | Dec 20, 2016 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
The below comes to us from sailor John Hulburd, who is selling his Condor 30 trimaran. He shares about the boat (and a few pictures too). If you, or anyone else, might like to inquire about purchasing this boat then contact John using his email address, which is also...
by OutRig | Nov 24, 2016 | About Catamarans, About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media, Multihull Audios, Nautical Lore Podcasts
CAT / TRI COMPARISONS PART THREE: CONFIGURATIONS and STRUCTURES The contrasting design challenges between catamaran and trimaran are met equally well today by understanding the differing load paths in their respective structures. In addition, because of the...
by OutRig | Oct 20, 2016 | About Catamarans, About Proas, About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media, Multihull Audios, Nautical Lore Podcasts
GRABBING THE BOTTOM Three more anchoring episodes illustrate the tenuousness of Grabbing The Bottom, with some conclusions about the weight of ground tackle and the crew’s the ability to retrieve the anchor. Jim asks for feedback as to how much “how-to” information,...
by OutRig | Oct 12, 2016 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media, Nautical Lore Podcasts
HIJACKED AND SHIPWRECKED There are two contrasting anchoring predicaments here: Jim’s boat and his family crew are hijacked by a “sea monster” and towed out to sea. How they get free. Then, a different vessel is embayed and destroyed, its crew...
by OutRig | Sep 21, 2016 | About Trimarans, Nautical Lore Podcasts, Other Multihull Stuff
Sailing past the tip of Baja in the dark, with no lighthouse operating, we find ourselves crossing to the Mexican Mainland, a passage of about 300 miles, with a chubasco obviously approaching. There being no protection from such storms at Cabo, we head back there...
by OutRig | Sep 21, 2016 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media, Nautical Lore Podcasts
The cultural influences of the 1960s, fear, paranoia and escapism, stimulates the owner-building of cruising-type multihulls. Survival aspects of yacht ownership discussed. Continues the the voyage of JUANA, wherein the vessel disappears from its anchorage at a remote...
by OutRig | Sep 15, 2016 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media, Nautical Lore Podcasts
We now begin to understand the differing dynamics, and the disorienting sensations, of running downwind in a craft capable of equaling or exceeding the speed of the seaway. Our trip down the Big Sur Coast offers us “the most terrifying thrill on this planet,” but the...
by OutRig | Sep 15, 2016 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media, Nautical Lore Podcasts
About ten years after Woody Brown launched the first truly modern catamaran, a San Francisco man named Arthur Piver succeeds in developing a three-hulled vessel that delivers the all-round performance and maneuverability that the catamarans of the day do not. I just...
by OutRig | Sep 7, 2016 | About Catamarans, About Proas, About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media, Multihull Audios, Nautical Lore Podcasts
Announcing Jim Brown’s Outrig “Capercast” … a new podcast of modern nautical lore. Jim Brown, multihull pioneer and historian, presents stories of today’s seafaring watercraft, their creators and their crews. These sea stories and interviews tell of...
by OutRig | Dec 6, 2015 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media, Other Multihull Stuff
SPRAY is a John Marples designed trimaran currently owned by sailor Marlene Sassaman. This beauty is now up for sale — at a great price too! (Find out why below). I’ve been on this boat … Marlene took my wife and I out for a little outing on SPRAY...
by OutRig | Oct 30, 2015 | About Catamarans, About Proas, About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media, Other Multihull Stuff
The official biography of Dick Newick has just been published. His innovative trimaran, catamaran and proa designs went on to inspire scores of multihull designers, especially in America and France. Here is the title description of the book as it appears on Amazon...
by OutRig | Nov 28, 2014 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
A short, fascinating video about a Dick Newick Designed trimaran named “Mocking Bird” which is now for sale by its owner. For More information please contact Chris White via his webpage for this boat at Yachtworld.
by OutRig | Jul 4, 2014 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media, Multihull Writing
Here is the continuing story of sailor Marlene Sassaman. The first part of her tale can be found here. Marlene bought A John Marples designed 35 foot trimaran a couple years ago from Jim Brown’s friend, Jo Hudson. She has been single-hand sailing on this...
by OutRig | Jun 5, 2014 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
This post features a brief record of multihull designer Derek Kelsall’s participation in the 1964 OSTAR race. He was enjoying much success until his boat was unexpectedly damaged. You can read his account below as well as see a few of his vintage pics from that...
by OutRig | Mar 20, 2014 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media, Multihull Writing
…(with a SeaRunner 37 Trimaran as the bowling ball) by Tim Mann One weekend (I don’t even remember why I did this, because it was 40 years ago) I sailed my SeaRunner 37 “Spice”, designed by Jim Brown, from her usual mooring at Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon...
by OutRig | Mar 13, 2014 | About Catamarans, About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
Here are a couple of fun pieces of multihull media, courtesy of Jim Brown. Jim and I recently spoke about an online article that compared small, trailerable trimarans with trailerable catamarans … in other words, boats that are in the same size range. (We...
by OutRig | Mar 3, 2014 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media, Multihull Writing
This submission comes to us from sailor Marlene Sassaman. She is the gal we’ve heard from here. Marlene bought A John Marples designed 35 foot trimaran a couple years ago from Jim Brown’s friend, Jo Hudson. She is now in the Bahamas, single-hand sailing on...
by OutRig | Feb 24, 2014 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
A sailor named Javier Ureta sent the following photo to me. It’s a picture of TRINE, a sailboat designed and built by Dick Newick for his day charter business in St. Croix back in the 60s. Javier writes, “She just got painted last week to continue doing...
by OutRig | Jun 7, 2013 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
Many thanks to Searunner trimaran self-builder / sailor Tay Vaughan for giving me a pdf copy of the Searunner Trimarans Catalog from 1973. Tay became a person friend of Jim Brown and actually sailed his Searunner trimaran, GREAT BEAR, alongside Jim’s boat,...
by OutRig | Apr 2, 2012 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
This short video is a follow up to last week’s Seaclipper 20 trimaran post. Jim narrates this short clip, which shows the boat really taking off when it by a gust. (It’s pretty neat 🙂 Plans for the Seaclipper 20 are available from John Marples at...
by OutRig | Sep 23, 2011 | About Catamarans, About Proas, About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
Here is Part Two of John Marples video-slideshow presentation on how to go about getting a marine survey and using it to your advantage in the boat-buying process. If you haven’t seen Part One yet, then you’ll want to do by viewing the video on the...
by OutRig | Sep 23, 2011 | About Catamarans, About Proas, About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
In July of 2010, multihull expert John Marples gave a presentation to his peers at the National Association of Marine Surveyors (NAMS) in San Francisco, California. During this session, many of these engineering professionals discovered, for the first time, what makes...
by OutRig | Jun 17, 2011 | "Among the Multihulls" Videos, About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
Among the Multihulls, Chapter Twelve, Video illustrations with Commentary. Chapter 12 – Drowned Rivers Strangers in their own land. Looking for a home. Struggles of the two sons emerging into adulthood and contending with life ashore. Building their own boats in...
by OutRig | May 17, 2011 | "Among the Multihulls" Videos, About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
Among the Multihulls, Chapter Eleven, Video illustrations with Commentary. Chapter 11 – Promise Kept SCRIMSHAW’s voyage from Old Providence to the Rio Dulce. Guidance from Captain John Bull, shooting Venus, rounding Cape Thank God. Life on the Great Sweet River:...
by OutRig | May 17, 2011 | "Among the Multihulls" Videos, About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
Among the Multihulls, Chapter Ten, Video illustrations with Commentary. Chapter 10 – Out of Gas Running out of gas in the Panama Canal. Prison island, The Zone: America’s experiment with socialism.” Outside the Zone. The San Blas Islands, Cartagena, overland to...
by OutRig | May 17, 2011 | "Among the Multihulls" Videos, About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
Among the Multihulls, Chapters Eight & Nine, Video illustrations with Commentary. Chapter 8 – Double Bind Living with Family in Highland Guatemala. Stories of the ancient Maya, their villages today, learning Spanish, and slowly acquiring the treasured...
by OutRig | May 17, 2011 | "Among the Multihulls" Videos, About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
Among the Multihulls, Chapter Seven, Video illustrations with Commentary. Chapter 7 – Jailbreak Family visits a prison. Making a multihull presentation to prisoners, then the family “escapes” to their boat and their ultimate freedom to go anywhere now. “Routine...
by OutRig | May 17, 2011 | "Among the Multihulls" Videos, About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
Among the Multihulls, Chapter Six, Video illustrations with Commentary. Chapter 6 – The Multihull Context Multihulls emerge in 1960’s California. Escape and survival motives, developing the Searunner series of ocean cruising trimarans for “seasteading.” Arthur...
by OutRig | May 17, 2011 | "Among the Multihulls" Videos, About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
Among the Multihulls, Chapter Five, Video illustrations with Commentary. Chapter 5 – Inauspicious Startup Multihull mania begins. Retrieving JUANA from Mexico. Voyage to Manzanillo, hitching ride for boat to San Diego aboard a tuna clipper. Moving to Big Sur....
by OutRig | May 17, 2011 | "Among the Multihulls" Videos, About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
Among the Multihulls, Chapter Four, Video illustrations with Commentary. Chapter 4 – Your Boat Is Gone First modern seafaring trimaran. Losing – then recovering – the boat at Todos Santos, narrowly escaping destruction in a hurricane by beaching the boat at Cape...
by OutRig | Apr 16, 2011 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
Video clip #3 featuring Jim Brown and his sailing trimaran Scrimshaw …
by OutRig | Apr 16, 2011 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
Video #2 featuring Jim Brown’s trimaran Scrimshaw …
by OutRig | Apr 16, 2011 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
In this video clip, Jim Brown features part one of a peek at the trimaran he built named Scrimshaw.
by OutRig | Apr 16, 2011 | "Among the Multihulls" Videos, About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
Chapter three video illustrations & commentary from Jim Brown’s memoir, Among the Multihulls. Chapter 3 – The Skipper Becoming a disciple of Arthur Piver. the Father of the Modern Trimaran. (Other key multihull personalities are featured in subsequent...
by OutRig | Apr 16, 2011 | "Among the Multihulls" Videos, About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
Chapter two video illustrations & commentary from Jim Brown’s memoir, Among the Multihulls. Chapter 2 – Promise Made Schooner bumming. Author meets his most formative mentor. an early multihull pioneer. Together they voyage from Miami to Colombia in...
by OutRig | Apr 16, 2011 | "Among the Multihulls" Videos, About Catamarans, About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
Jim Brown’s video illustrations, with commentary, from chapter one of his memoir Among the Multihulls. Chapter 1 – To Build A Baby The Freudian meaning of boats. Drawing the plans, starting SCRIMSHAW, planking parties. Multihull events of late 60s. Writing...
by OutRig | Apr 16, 2011 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
The last installment of Jim Brown’s video series featuring Scrimshaw, his self-built wooden cruising trimaran.
by OutRig | Apr 16, 2011 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
Part 6 of Jim Brown’s video featuring Scrimshaw, the trimaran he built and sailed with his family for over 3 full years during the 1970s.
by OutRig | Apr 16, 2011 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
Part 5 of Jim Brown’s video series featuring Scrimshaw, his famous self-built wooden trimaran designed in the 1970s.
by OutRig | Apr 16, 2011 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
Part 4 of Jim Brown’s video featuring what it’s like living and sailing his trimaran Scrimshaw …
by OutRig | Apr 16, 2011 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
Continued commentary by Jim Brown featuring his live-on-board trimaran Scrimshaw …
by OutRig | Apr 16, 2011 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
Jim Brown continutes an in-depth look at the live-aboard features of Scrimshaw, his homebuilt trimaran …
by OutRig | Apr 16, 2011 | About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
In this video, Jim Brown discusses what the living accommodations offered by his self-built wooden trimaran Scrimshaw …
by OutRig | Apr 16, 2011 | About Catamarans, About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
In this video, legendary trimaran sailor and developer Jim Brown continues his historical look at multihull pioneers from the 20th century.
by OutRig | Apr 16, 2011 | About Catamarans, About Trimarans, All Multihulls Media
In this video, Jim Brown presents a brief overview of multihull pioneers in the 20th century. Click on the video to watch …
