Summary
Date happened: 19 69>72 Date posted: 2010/3/1 Size: 13 pages
First chapter for Jim Brown’s memoir of modern multihull history and lore. Has many illustrations at (You Tube link coming soon).
Author’s contact: outrig.org@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
Chapter 1: To Build A Baby
Designing and building SCRIMSHAW, the author’s family boat, Walt Glaser’s Freudian meaning of boats. Drawing and selling the Searunner plans, the man-and- wife crew. Multihull events of late 60s. Writing Construction manual, launching SCRIMSHAW, collision with Commodore, ramming restaurant, Friends take over author’s blooming design business, Browns take off for Panama in SCRIMSHAW, a family crew with no destination and no plans to return.
Note: The following description is repeated from the Summary for the Foreword to this book. To see the Foreword itself,(two pages) clickFOREWORD
DESCRIPTION
Multihull pioneer Jim Brown, after fifty years of designing, building and seafaring in catamarans, trimarans and proas, here offers a brief Foreword to Volume One of his personal memoir. In two pages he describes modern multihulls as, “an entire new genus in the phylum of surface watercraft,” credits his declining eyesight for the visual multihull memories he calls “phantom visions,” and invites readers to participate in the OutRig! Project by telling their own multihull-related stories at this Site.
The focus of this two-volume work is on how the advent of modern multihulls has shaped the authors life and the lives of his colleagues, clients, shipmates and family. Volume One recounts multihull incidents and milestones from the 1940s to the 1970s, with a second volume in preparation covering from the ‘70s to the present. Brown identifies the cultural and geopolitical context from which modern multihulls emerged; explains the phases of their design, construction and application; and traces their progress from derision to acceptance in yachting, ocean racing, seasteading, and in commercial and military service.
Largely autobiographical, the book contains many sea stories of the author’s and his client’s escapades, mishaps and achievements. Brown relates the adventures of “seasteading” in foreign waters for years with his family, and then describes how, at age 76, his personal world view has been shaped by incidents in the books, and draws scenarios of what multihulls may mean to the future of humankind.
Multimedia coverage…
To see examples of the OutRig! multimedia presentation of “Among The Multihulls” and other productions, you may wish to visit the following links:
• As a free site launching special, the first three chapters of “Among The Multihulls” are to be serialized monthly here on OutRig! To read Chapter 1,see the listing on the OutRig! Time Line or click ATM-1 TEXT
• Extensive illustrations for each chapter (both stills and moving footage narrated by the author) will be posted on You Tube concurrent with the chapters serialized here. To see the illustrations for Chapter One, select that listing on the Time Line or click ATM-1-V PIX
• This book has an introductory video titled “The Multihull Pioneers.” Featuring profiles of five early multihull trail blazers, it appears in two ten-minute segments on You Tube as listed on the Time Line. To watch it directly click PIONEERS VIDEO.
• The above video has a text counterpart. It is the original manuscript (before editing) of an article from WoodenBoat magazine titled “Multihull Pioneers.” It contains more detailed profiles of the same five early trail blazers featured in the video. This and other articles are listed on the Time Line, but you can click PIONEERS ARTICLE now (goes first to its Summary as with all Time Line listings).
• Text downloads and extensive on-line graphics for all the succeeding chapters of this book, and also the print edition of Volume One, will all be available soon. To express your interest in any of these please click INTERESTED.
Finally, to read the 13 pages of Chapter 1 of “Among The Multihulls” click
Options for other formats may be available in the Time Line list.