This is the Information Sailors and Prospective Boat Builders Want to Know About Today's Production and Homebuilt Small Trimarans. Imagine being able to sit down with experts for many of the new, most popular, and frequently sought after production or homebuilt small trimarans in the world today. Well, now you can

Are you ready for a behind-the-scenes look at some of your favorite small trimarans? This book includes the following information:

1) Newly published pictures and tips about these super fast, ultra-fun sailboats
2) What small trimaran might be best for you to buy or build
3) The challenges to building your own and (how to overcome them)
4) The purpose behind each featured design
5) What makes each sailboat unique compared to others in the market
6) How fast these boats go
7) How easy (or challenging) they are to sail
8) The biggest benefits associated with each boat
9) Unique insights and stories from designers

There isn't a lot of "technical" information within these pages. Some information might fit into a technical section (if one were included), but there isnt any because that wasn't a goal. It should be fairly easy to go on the Internet and uncover the technical data for any of these boats if you really want it. The simple goal of this particular work was to have those who are most knowledgeable discuss the stories and insights behind the sailboats they personally know -- in some cases, better than anyone else in the world.

The small trimarans featured in this book fall into 2 categories: Production Sailboats (which I also sometimes refer to as "commercial" or "commercially produced" boats) & Self-Built Sailboats. This is really the only "logical" arrangement of order. There is one exception -- the Trinado model. Featured boats include:

The Magnum 18, 21 & 21S Trimarans ...

The Windrider 16, 17 & Rave (Hydrofoil) Trimarans ...

The Weta Beach Trimaran]

The Wa'apa & Tamanu Small Trimaran Sailing Canoes ...

The Fast 17, A18T, A21, Cardiff 21 & Z65 Small Trimarans ...

The Seaclipper 10 & 16 Trimarans ]

The Scarab Small Trimaran Models ...

The Discovery 20 Small Trimaran...

The Warren 23' & 27' Small Trimarans ...

The L7, Multi 23 & Beach Tri 22 Small Trimarans ...

The KH 16', Spitfire 20' & KH 23' Small Trimarans...

The Trinado Trimaran...

The Tremolino Trimaran...

The K24T Small Cabin Cruiser Trimaran]

Plus -- An Interview about Wooden Boatbuilding with Chuck Leinweber (publisher of Duckworks Magazine).

Interviews featuring production models are in the front. And the small trimaran models most often "self-built" at home by a do-it-yourselfer follow. This order of arrangement isn't meant to convey some boats are "better" than others. Such assessment is purely subjective. Itll be shaped most often by what an individual wants in a boat at any given time. In my opinion, all of boats talked about in these pages are fun, fast and desirable.

There are selections from the front page of the Nassau Tribune, an article about falling overboard from a yacht in a snow storm in Cruising World, an essay in The Concord Review of History, the Journal of the Bahamas Historical Society, and The Mancunian, the magazine of Harris Manchester College, Oxford, as well as the Stylus of Boston College and The Docket of Roger Williams Universitys School of Law. A number of the journalistic pieces were written while an undergraduate. The stories include voyages across the Atlantic and Pacific, allowing the reader to follow the author from coups in Haiti to dozens of countries and island groups around the world. Also includes articles featured in: "What's On, Bahamas," (Neil Aberle, Editor), Nassau, Bahamas "St. George's Bulletin," St. George's School, Newport, RI "Poetry Fest" anthologies 1987-1989, Governor Dummer Academy, Byfield, MA "The Heights," Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA "Caribbean Boating / Newport Sailor, (Jim Long, Editor), USVI "Newport This Week," (Lisette Prince, Editor), Newport, RI Journal of the Bahamas Historical Society, (James Lawlor) Nassau, Bahamas Published Writing, 1983 2009 is a 25-year compendium of published material, preserved in its original form and collated every 10 years or so into smaller volumes. These articles, poems and drawings were selected for publication in a wide range of mediums, including university presses and glossy commercial magazines. Published Work Volume 1: 1983 1991, (Boston, April, 1991) Published Work Volume 2: 1991 2003, (Newport, April, 2003) Published Work Volume 3: 2003 2009, (Norwalk, December, 2009) Eric T. Wibergs studies took him to five universities in three countries - he sailed across the Atlantic to attend Oxford and skippered a 68-foot yacht to New Zealand after college. He has run tankers in Singapore and headhunted in New York. A licensed captain and maritime lawyer, he provides business development servies to the shipping industry. The author of several books about travel and naval history, he grew up in Bahamas and lives with his wife and son in Connecticut See www.publishedwriting.com and www.ericwiberg.com

"Navigation puzzles, controversies, historical problems, and other ponderables demystified by an expert navigator and writer. Joe Portney is a US Naval Academy graduate and Air Force navigator who has participated in three historic flights over the North Pole. He is a past President of the Institute of Navigation and recipient of the Weems Award for continuing contributions to the art and science of navigation. He has produced a wonderful little book here, chock filled with interesting tidbits, each of which can be read in a few minutes but will stimulate your thought for many days to come. Some are very basic, others more involved, but he provides a clear explanation of each. Some refer to math computations that we might not all be familiar with, but this is not a distraction from the main points being made even in these few cases."

A simplified tutorial on how to do beginner and advanced Celestial Navigation sights and fixes. Illustrated with examples and marked tables to make the whole process easier. Contains complete information, worksheets, everything needed to learn (except the Nautical Almanac, which must be purchased separately).

""Always Another Horizon,"is well written and a delightful way to spend a winter's evening or a rainy day."
-"Santana Magazine"

Full of rich detail and intriguing insight, "Always Another Horizon: A Journey Around the World" tells the story of one couple's voyage around the globe.

For nearly eight years, author Tina Olton and her husband, Steve Salmon, sailed around the world on their forty-foot, ocean-going sailboat, "Another Horizon," In that time, they traveled 45,000 miles, visited sixty-one countries, and crossed three oceans as well as countless seas, canals, lakes, and rivers.

From Berkeley, California, the couple cast off their dock lines to head west through the Golden Gate. The whole world was before them-the ultimate traveler's dream. From the rich beauty of French Polynesia on Easter Sunday to the whitewashed beaches of Greece, Olton and Salmon embraced the world and its diversity.

But the voyage also forced the couple to examine the limits of their determination, their ability to endure hardship, their tolerance for other people-regardless of behavior or beliefs-and their good will toward each other. Olton and Salmon soon realized that the journey would have a profound impact on their lives-or bring them to their knees.

For maps and photos, see www.AlwaysAnotherHorizon.com.

This book is ground breaking not because of what it has, but what it doesn't have: No complicated drawings; no mathematics problems; no astronomical talk; no big words you've never heard of. Sailor-author Gene Grossman finally breaks this wonderful subject down into plain English and explains it in such a way that you will no longer have any excuse to claim that you know nothing about the valuable boater's subject of Celestial Navigation. This book was inspired by Gene's DVD program of the same title, which has gained worldwide popularity and is being used the the Navy, Coast Guard and sailing schools all over the world.

When Daniel Robb set out to rebuild a family sailboat that had been deteriorating for years, he couldn't have anticipated what he was getting into. Although Robb was a skilled carpenter, boatbuilding (and boat repair) required a specialized set of skills. And this wasn't just any boat; it was a Herreshoff 12 1/2, a classic wooden sailboat. Built especially for the coastal waters of New England, this little sloop had sailed for years out of the author's boyhood home in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, before being relegated to a quiet corner of a yard, no longer the focus of the family's summer. Restoring the sailboat was both an act of respect and an homage to a place and a way of life that are in jeopardy of disappearing.

"Sloop" is the captivating story of Daniel Robb's education in boatbuilding, peopled by an eccentric cast of characters -- lumbermen, boatbuilders, and local artisans -- who are part of a changing and perhaps dying world. They tell Robb how to find the materials -- certain kinds of wood, fastenings, caulking, and canvas -- he'll need, which are increasingly hard to come by, and they educate him in the techniques of restoration, an all-but-lost art. Building and restoring wooden boats means an initiation into a world where life is lived simply, with respect for materials, for labor, and for the local waters.

A craftsman and environmentalist, Robb is a willing and able student, and although the restoration of the boat takes far more time and effort than he'd calculated, it is ultimately successful. After all Robb's struggles with quartersawn white oak, homemade steam boxes, bronze screws, copper rivets, andold mast hoops, the Herreshoff sails again -- and a dying art and a vanishing way of life remain alive and vibrant just a while longer.

By turns charming, meditative, and wonderfully quirky, "Sloop" is a paean to a sense of place and to old-fashioned values.

It was 1989 when I started building a large 1/4"= 1 foot scale model of Constitution and today, 16 years and 18,000 hours later, I honestly believe this is how she was rigged during her last chase, exactly one hour prior to her last battle against the British HMS Levant and HMS Cyane. I had already invested more than four thousand hours in the construction of this model, and had intended, upon completion of the hull, to proceed with the stepping of masts and rigging her just as I had done previously on other models. However, In February 1992, when Commander Martin presented me with an original typescript of Midshipman Edward Clifford Anderson's notes on the rigging of the ship in 1834-35 at Boston, the earliest such specific information known, I decided I would follow Midshipman Anderson's directions and record the progress, step by step, discovering for myself what was done and how. This meant creating additional scaled parts relating to sheer poles, etc. to simulate exactly how the masts and the bowsprit, etc. were stepped in this era, and for this reason. Due to the equipment available today, and rightfully so, I do not believe that Constitution, or any ship's from this era, will ever again be rigged, including the stepping of the masts, using sheer poles and tackle only, and so I chose, while this one and only opportunity lent itself, to show this pictorially.

At forty, Mary South had a beautiful home, good friends, and a successful career in book publishing. But she couldn't help feeling that she was missing something intangible but essential. So she decided to go looking for it . . . at sea. Six months later she had quit her job, sold the house, and was living aboard a forty-foot, thirty-ton steel trawler she rechristened Bossanova. Despite her total lack of experience, South set out on her maiden voyage--a fifteen-hundred-mile odyssey from Florida to Maine--with her one-man, two-dog crew. But what began as the fulfillment of an idle wish became a crash course in navigating the complicated byways of the self.

More than just a book about sailing, Go for the Green is a clarion call to bring sailing out of the doldrums and into an expanded role as a catalyst for the more environmentally sensitive enjoyment of the sea. As a former Coast Guard Officer, active racer, cruiser and yacht designer, author Garry Hoyt combines a lifetime of sailing experience, with a weather eye to uncover the new challenges of global warming and the need for energy independence.

His prediction that carbon based fuels will eventually draw the same degree of social scorn that smoking now receives, creates an automatic need for ingenuity in the harnessing of sail and solar power as better alternatives for water based recreation. To encourage readers along that path, Hoyt presents a philosophy and a variety of new design solutions to stimulate more creative design development. He makes his case in a simple, readable style that will interest all those who love the sea.

Picture yourself clad in your favorite bathing suit relaxing on a sleek sailing yacht anchored in crystal clear water off white sandy beaches. Cool drink in hand, you're soaking up the brilliant sunshine, trying not to awaken from this impossible dream. An impossible dream?? Not at all!! A former couple from Endwell, New York not only had this dream but actually lived it. Dorothy and Richard Kiegler lived aboard and cruised the Caribbean aboard their sailing Trimaran the "Malo Folau" for over seven years. This fascinating memoir tells their story and includes original poetry by Richard Kiegler.

'The attractions of dinghy sailing are many and varied. There is an enjoyment of being afloat and getting healthy exercise in the open air the satisfaction of having secured a tactical victory and outsailed one's competitors is another source of delight, while the appreciation of the skill of someone else in sailing a better race should not fail to arouse pleasure and interest.' This book is a great source of interest and knowledge as well as a spur to successful racing and a guide to proud ownership. Contents Include: Periodic Survey and First Aid Rigging, Wire and Wire Rope Rigging Cordage Varnish, Enamel and Other Finishes Scraping and Smoothing Applying Varnish Masts and Spars Blocks, Fittings and Fastenings Centreboards and Rudders Sails Getting Them Right Keeping Them Right

Provides advice on traveling by boat from Florida to the Caribbean by island hopping your way through the Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos Islands, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. Discusses suggested reference sources, charts, trip timing, and routes. In addition it includes a narrative of the authors' trip, what went right, what didn't, and how they would do it if they did it again. Aimed at those who have never made this trip before, including those who are new to cruising and those who might be just dreaming about it.

Picture yourself clad in your favorite bathing suit relaxing on a sleek sailing yacht anchored in crystal clear water off white sandy beaches. Cool drink in hand, you're soaking up the brilliant sunshine, trying not to awaken from this impossible dream. An impossible dream?? Not at all!! A former couple from Endwell, New York not only had this dream but actually lived it. Dorothy and Richard Kiegler lived aboard and cruised the Caribbean aboard their sailing Trimaran the "Malo Folau" for over seven years. This fascinating memoir tells their story and includes original poetry by Richard Kiegler.

The coverage from Grand Bahama and the Abacos South to Cat Island includes:

Crossing the Great Bahama Bank The Abacos

The Berry Islands

Grand Bahama

New Providence

The Biminis

Eleuthera

Andros

Cat Island

This completely updated version of the Pavlidis Bahamas Guides has:

All Original Charts Based on Personal Surveys Conducted by the Author.

Extensive Navigational Instructions and GPS Waypoints.

New Full-color Aerial Photos and Charts.

The coverage in The Southern Bahamas Guide from Cat Island South to the Turks & Caicos~Dominican Republic North Coast includes:

Cat Island

The Jumentos

Conception Island and Ragged Island

Rum Cay

The Crooked Island District

San Salvador

Mayaguana

Long Island

Inagua

The Turks and Caicos Islands

The Dominican Republic North Coast Ports

This completely updated version of the Pavlidis Bahamas Guide has:

All Original Charts Based on Personal Surveys Conducted by the Author.

Extensive Navigational Instructions and GPS Waypoints.

New Full-color Aerial Photos and Charts.

Arthur Graham Howard, M.D.
The Odyssey of Sunraker

Originally published in 1928. Contents include: On Setting Sail - Sailing with Notes on Balance Lugs - Strong Winds and Reefing - Rules of the Road - Mooring, Stowing, Awnings, Down Mast - About Knots - On Ship keeping - The Kitchen - Sailing Dictionary etc. Written as help and encouragement for the learner. Illustrated with diagrams.

No Excuse to Lose is the book Dennis Conner still refers to as "the bible," He says (Time magazine, 9 February 1987), "I like to compete. I guess I don't dislike it, but my sailing is just bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life."

"Adventure is always within reach! Join one family as they explore their dreams of sailing. Once they begin their excursions, life shows it has more excitement in store for them than they planned for. Hard work and tropical weather lead to a romantic true-life tale where success is measured by the journey and not the destination."