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Posted by on 10/30 at 07:48 PM
 Indian summer is officially over around here, and thoughts turn to winter projects in the workshop. I've worked up a little trimaran design, inspired by Solway Dory's Osprey and Chris Ostlind's XCR. It's an 18' stitch and glue plywood, 5 panel hull, with tortured ply amas and aluminum akas. Hull beam is 30". sail area: 118 sq. ft. a high aspect leeboard would be included (not shown). It would be fun to day sail, and might make a good little camp cruiser. My wish list is as follows: Must be: cheap Stitch and glue plywood construction simple pretty trailerable quick and easy to set up, take down seaworthy (relatively) launched in 5-6 months room for 2 human auxiliary power Would be nice: car top multihull unusually fast sleeping/camp stove room aboard Last spring I found a partly finished Wharram 21 on Craig's List that was very attractive to me. It has the ply panels cut, the plans, and a new suit of Jeckyl sails. The design is proven, and I have the added advantage that most of the hardware and rigging could come out of the old Rozinante box in the garage. It met most of the "must" list, but the Wharram is far from quick and easy to set up, in fact maybe the worst. Set up would take hours! I'd have to moor it to get any real use out of it. It has great onboard camping room, but the interior is useful mostly for storage. It is too heavy to really drag up a beach, and in the end, I passed. The tri meets all the "must" list (yea, I'll need to be clever with the set up, and even so it'll never match a well set up mono) the only thing it really lacks is good onboard sleeping for two. That would be a nice thing because here in the Pacific NW, most waterfront is private property and it's nice to hang on a hook over night in some protected cove. That said, plenty of people cruise in their kayaks around here, and if I take that as "the way to do it" then I'm no worse off. Other good things about the tri is that it will be an excellent light air ghoster and should paddle OK. I have some old carbon windsurfer masts that I can cut up into the various spars required, though the main mast will need to be build of wood.   The name: Queegueg was the Pacific Islander harpooner from Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Comments
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