Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown - 2: WOODY BROWN AND HIS TRAIL-BLAZING CATAMARAN

2: WOODY BROWN AND HIS TRAIL-BLAZING CATAMARAN

09/09/16 • 17 min

Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown

Modern nautical lore “capercast” podcast with multihull pioneer and historian Jim Brown.

This is oral narrative # 2 featuring modern seafaring watercraft, their concepts, creators and crews.

In this episode,Jim continues the amazing story of Woody Brown, designer and sailor of the first modern catamaran.

Modern nautical lore “capercast” podcast with multihull pioneer and historian Jim Brown.

This is oral narrative # 2 featuring modern seafaring watercraft, their concepts, creators and crews.

In this episode,Jim continues the amazing story of Woody Brown, designer and sailor of the first modern catamaran.

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3: ARTHUR PIVER, FATHER OF THE MODERN TRIMERAN

Arthur Piver and the Modern Trimaran

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 happen to be there at the right time – late 1950s – and am so consumed by this revelation that I build two of Piver’s early boats and, together with my bride Jo Anna, take one of them to sea.