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A small trimaran. Motor and sailboat.
A 3 h.p. motor.
A bi-plane sail rig; consisting of 2 un-stayed carbon masts, with wind surfer sails.
Uses about one and a half litres of petrol per hour.
Made from 4 m.m. plywood on stringers. Stainless staples.
with some light fibreglass.
Carbon fibre over 10 m.m. ply ; for bracket/ clamp areas.
Beams are old aluminium masts.
Foot steer.
One person.
Made the hulls on the car garage over the winter.
Sailed/motored this boat all summer. 5 weeks. Out nearly ever day.
The really pleasing part is that it performs better than I had hoped!!
Sails really well downwind. Bow is fairly full; so as not to bury down a 3 to 4 foot wave.
And upwind, with the motor and a centre board; it is great.
The windward sail is not fully sheeted in. Works more like a gib for the leeward sail. Although when you get a gust you sheet the windward sail in hard; this flattens the boat.
Have attached runners under hulls, so that Endorphin can be run up onto beaches.
Easy to rig.
Easy to launch and retrieve onto dolly.
Materials list:
5 sheets of 4 m.m. ply.
One sheet of 10 m.m. ply.
Some strips of solid timber- I used Macracarpa; a Cyprus pine.
Some 200 gram fibre-glass
and a small amount of carbon.
10 litres of Epoxy resin and some filler powder.
Some paint.
Weight: About 120 kg . All up
Hull, rig, motor, foils.