{"id":29524,"date":"2017-12-14T12:07:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T12:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=29524"},"modified":"2017-12-14T12:08:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T12:08:18","slug":"eight-bells-for-ian-farrier-innovative-multihull-designer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2017\/12\/eight-bells-for-ian-farrier-innovative-multihull-designer\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Bells for Ian Farrier: Innovative Multihull Designer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ian Farrier first started sailing multihulls virtually by accident, being a twenty year old New Zealand engineering student and monohull sailor, looking for a keelboat to do some offshore cruising.Ian Farrier, a visionary multihull designer best known for his folding trailerable trimarans, died at age 70 on December 10, 2017.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 Nothing suitable was available, but then an unfinished 30-foot trimaran was advertised, and this was purchased after some research. After two years of hard work and rebuilding, his first multihull was launched in 1969.<\/p>\n

It was not a perfect multihull, but it was reasonably fast and forgiving. However, some design limitations were apparent, and confidence was lacking for a long ocean voyage, so he jumped ship to a 38-foot keelboat bound for Tonga. The contrast in comfort, handling and safety aspects observed during this trip convinced him that a well-designed multihull was the way to go.<\/p>\n

In 1972 he arrived in Brisbane, Australia, where the growing popularity of the monohull trailer sailer was noted while crewing on a local trimaran. A trailerable trimaran appeared to have many advantages over trailerable monohulls, so he decided to look at what could be done. Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ian Farrier first started sailing multihulls virtually by accident, being a twenty year old New Zealand engineering student and monohull sailor, looking for a keelboat to do some offshore cruising.Ian Farrier, a visionary multihull designer best known for his folding trailerable trimarans, died at age 70 on December 10, 2017. \u00a0 \u00a0 Nothing suitable was available, but then an unfinished 30-foot trimaran was advertised, and this was purchased after some research. After two years of hard work and rebuilding, his first multihull was launched in 1969. It was not a perfect multihull, but it was reasonably fast and forgiving. However, some design limitations were apparent, and confidence was lacking for a long ocean voyage, so he jumped ship to a 38-foot keelboat bound for Tonga. The contrast in comfort, handling and safety aspects observed during this trip convinced him that a well-designed multihull was the way to go. In 1972 he arrived in Brisbane, Australia, where the growing popularity of the monohull trailer sailer was noted while crewing on a local trimaran. A trailerable trimaran appeared to have many advantages over trailerable monohulls, so he decided to look at what could be done. Read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29533,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29524\/revisions\/29533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}