A young schooner bum, thrilled by the ways of a windjammer,
resolves to acquire his own boat and follow the sea in search of
pals and gals and utopian freedom. It is the mid 1950s, he is in
his early twenties, and while building his own boat he rather
suddenly finds himself to be a family man. Undeterred, he and his
bride, now five and a half months pregnant, sail out through the
Golden Gate in an experimental contraption and turn left for
Mexico. They don't know it at the time, and they wouldn't have
cared, but their tiny boat is the first three-hulled watercraft to
go to sea in modern times. Soon the author becomes an unintended
"instant expert" in what would become, fifty years later, an
absolute sea change in marine architecture. This work in two
volumes tells of those fifty years, of the people, the boats, the
foibles and the fables, the history and lore that - despite a
sometimes fierce resistance from the Corinthian community -
comprise the origins of today's modern catamarans, trimarans and
proas. Told as the memoir of a septuagenarian sea dog whose failing
eyesight causes him to "see" his memories, Jim Brown recounts the
multihull milestones of the 1950s to the 70s (Volume One) and the
1970s into the new millennium (Volume Two). He highlights the
pivotal multihull pioneers, and relates the controversial advent
and eventual ascendance of multihulls today, with their
implications for tomorrow. However, this rich nautical heritage
runs as but a thread through the fabric of how the multihull
phenomenon shapes the lives of the writer and his family and
friends. His obsession is fulfilled in ways far different from his
youthful promise to himself.
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