We featured the work of sailor Kellan Hatch awhile back in 2 posts. See here: http://smalltrimarans.com/blog/a-homebuilt-clc-mill-creek-trimaran/ … and here: http://smalltrimarans.com/blog/camp-cruising-coastal-sailing-in-the-xcr-trimaran/
I only recently found this article by Kellan on the duckworks site (even though it was linked from another article that I’d posted on Duckworks). This is essentially more info about the CLC Mill Creek Trimaran he built.
A Curious Boat For Questionable Adventures
by Kellan Hatch
“After sailing the strange waters of the Great Salt Lake for three or four years I started to realize that my West Wight Potter 19, wonderful as it is, is not the one and only boat for me. I was beginning to hear the call of far-flung places, some of them totally devoid of launch ramps or even convenient beach roads. When vacation time came around, I found myself having to choose between the boat and the tent trailer; I couldn’t tow both, could I? Alright, yes I did consider it, but I knew that what I really needed was a simple, lightweight beachable boat that could be rowed or paddled. And I wanted to build it myself, mostly for reasons of economy, as I was totally and naively unaware at the time of the life-altering consequences of contracting the boatbuilding bug.
It eventually came down to a simple choice: should I build a canoe or a lightweight car-toppable sailboat? When someone suggested that I investigate sailing canoes, I thought he was joking. But then I stumbled across a drawing of a John Bull designed outrigger sailing canoe. My head did a full 360. I had never seen anything like this! I had to have one. But would it fit the (admittedly ambitious) list of criteria that had been forming in my head?”
Click here to continue reading on the Duckworks webpage…