Many thanks love the positive words 🤙🙏

Glad you like them thanks 🙏

Nice 👍

Thank you very much!

Yeah top conditions hey 👍

First thing we did 🤙😉

Many thanks 🙏 couldn’t help myself with regard to the sail description 😉

Sweet thanks a lot 🙏

Many thanks appreciate it 🙏

Cheers Jack glad you enjoyed it 🤙

Thanks groovers we hope we get to see you on the water soon. Missing your cruising vids!! 🤙

Mastering the slot leech 🤙🙏

Many thanks 🙏

Thanks 🙏 it was hard not to comment on the quality of those sails 😜

Nice glad to see your comment and to hear your positive words. We agree she’s a wonderful design and we fell lucky to have found her 🙏

Awesome she’s definitely been around from what we’ve heard. It’s lovely to have a boat that’s so well known. We’re looking forward to bringing her back to life over the coming years. Hopefully we’ll get to cross paths on the water sometime. All the best 🤙

Hey George many thanks mate 🤙

Yes it was!

Welcome back! Thanks a lot for the comment 🙏🤙

For info Chris White doesn't use Polynesian names for these parts. He calls the amas "floats" for example.

Yeah she’s a pretty cool old boat 🤙

How did you know?? 😉

They sure are the best boats!!

So far the mainsheet systems working great. Gives us lots of options for sheeting. Bow thirster is a tunnel thruster so no issues with line getting caught 🤙

Well spotted eagle eyes 👀

@@TrimaranSpirit good, did you fit those? I guess even better would be a full width fabric hinge on the front edge. That would give more security

Thanks 🙏

Thanks 🙏

Swinging centreboards are a great idea…but then you realise there is no way to clean them, or the box. Do you have access from inside? Do you have a method of closing the slot behind the board

Many thanks. Our plan is to live onboard for a few years and to really get to know the boat then we’ll look at doing a full refit some place like the east coast of Australia. We’ll be doing the rig and sail work there at the same time.

He got me for a moment with the split leach slot! If he hadn’t mentioned the go faster white patches…..

Nice simple sheeting system. No expensive track. You could make it more simple by only connecting the lee line. (So the windward line doesn’t risk taking your head off) That can be just a single line, let main out a bit more than needed, cleat it down, the sheet in main.

Sheeting angles were all screwed up buddy 🤙

Yeah we’re pretty stoked to have found this old girl when we did. It was four years of patiently waiting but it’s been well worth the wait. Her spends actually pretty good. She’s now heavy with cruising gear and provisions for the pacific but even on a beam reach the other day she was pulling 8’s in 10’s which is pretty amazing. Sail wardrobe isn’t up to scratch and we can’t sheet the headsail in well so the upwind numbers aren’t reliable yet. Slightly bigger sail area and some modifications to her deck layout and rigging and she’ll have more than enough speed for us. It’s the light winds where the two boats will be further apart but heavy they should perform similarly as this boat easily does 20’s. Stay tuned we hope to have some better numbers and videos as time goes on. 👍

Hey Gerald many thanks 🙏 I’ve been trying to blog every month or so you can find it at trimaranspirit.weebly.com

Great to see you guys cruising again 👍 After I asked the question heaps of your vids came up on my feed, as I’ve been doing a refit on Cactus away from home KZfaq has been my main entertainment so I look forward to catching up with all your new adventures.@@TrimaranSpirit

Many thanks she’s a pretty cool old design 🙏 As most know we enjoy sailing tropical areas where there’s mainly light airs so we may increase the sail area in time we’ll see. Chris informed us that the small rig height was due to the need to cruise the Intercostal waterway on the US east coast? Some of his cats have large rigs and I believe two have capsized? My point of view is that it’s the crew that makes a boat safe or dangerous not the rig height.

@@TrimaranSpirit Rig height was for a couple reasons. One is bridge clearance (air gap). The other is lower heeling moment. If you want to build a performance world sailing boat that can handle big seas, the taller rig becomes a deficit. Better to have a shorter rig you can maximize more often, than a taller rig that adds momentum and heeling moment in storms. Remember, these are meant to be performance cruisers and not pure racers. A tri has strong performance even with a shorter rig, and the risks of a taller rig are more appropriate for a pure racing boat.

Chris White Hammerhead 54 sailing 20+ knots motoring 6-8kts 👍

Yep we did a video on the final jobs that were done in Panama that included the panels being fitted why and how. Check it out at this link kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kJikm9Nnnt6zpWw.htmlsi=KE7awWOVOpIiNPsc

In time we will be. So far only 500 sailed we need a few more miles before we form our opinions 🙏🤙

@@TrimaranSpirit im also thinking in doing the same for pure simplicity and avoid vang, leeward could also be used as boom retainer which is not bad

Thanks 🙏

The purpose of trampolines in general is to resist (heaving) waves as little as possible while still providing a footing for sailors. And to reduce weight compared to a longer (more forward) arms or bridgedeck.

No we’re not worried they’ve been there for thirty years and the boats designed to have them 🤙

We could if it was made for the boat. This one was too large and the sheeting angles were all screwed up so we kept her furled.

@@TrimaranSpirit maybe ,especially the headrail the same , your boat speeds up very easily, so if you increase the sail , youl get to the point where you cannot put it all out quicker, a part furled sail isn't efficient, so why not change the inner sail , you get more versatility with run them both in light winds, and just the smaller in heavy winds, a yanke isn't a bad sail, I crosed oceans in this way,

That's just Australian,they love There vowls.

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