Corsica 15R
Sports Car Performance on the Water
Having not published since January, it’s pretty obvious that I’ve recently taken a break from my design work. During that time, I’ve been able to reassess my connection to the craft of boat design. The last boat I designed was the Europa 20, which is a trimaran meant for vertical strip foam construction with sandwich style epoxy/glass laminates on both sides. The Europa is a boat for very fast day sailing with a very light hull and a very big rig. A boat that is not for everyone, to be sure, as it requires a level of skill that the average guy does not typically cultivate in order to fully realize the potential of the Europa.
Stepping away from the larger, beach type multihulls, I came around to the desire to produce a smaller, very quick and sensitive boat that would appeal to recreational sailors and not just those guys who want to blast around with their hair on fire (though I do suspect that in the right hands, this boat will do just that). The new design had to be easy to build with standard, marine plywood/epoxy/glass techniques that did not rely on exotic layups with spendy carbon cloth. ( Well, maybe the carbon will sneak in there a bit on the beams for the guys who want to play with a bigger rig )
Posted: October 8th, 2010 under Sailing Multihulls, Trimarans.
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