List of Articles

Over the years a number of magazines have published articles on both our production and home builder designs. I know some are quite old articles, but they do show the development of our ideas and designs.

Please click on the links below to view the ones that interest you.

Note, for copyright reasons some of the texts are abbreviated and illustrations may vary from the original

However, full copies of the articles should be available (at a price) directly from the magazines

Building Articles

Building a Quattro 16

The (Gypsy) Boatbuilders Wife

Flat Panel Construction

Finishing off a Shell

Comments by a Mirage builder

Cruising Articles

An Autumn Cruise (Strider singlehanded)

A Day Sail to Russia

A Strider round Malaysia

Midnight Hour (A Mira transatlantic)

1 2 3 Hulls (Flica to the Med)

A Scilly Time to Cruise (sailing on an Eclipse)

Sailing in the UK

Crossing the Atlantic on Eclipse Part 1

Crossing the Atlantic on Eclipse Part 2

Crossing the Atlantic on Eclipse Part 3

Piracy

Cruising Alaska

Sailing in British Columbia

Cruising on Eclipse - the final days

Eclipse Perfect Storm Part 1

Eclipse Perfect Storm Part 2

Eclipse Perfect Storm Part 3

Eclipse Perfect Storm Part 4

Land Trips during our Eclipse cruise

Race Reports

Micromultihulls 1987- 98

3 Peaks Yacht Race

Offshore Racing

Capetown to Rio 2000

Technical Articles

Multihull Rating Rules

The Development of the Micromultihull

Performance Multihulls Part 1

Performance Multihulls Part 2

Buying a new catamaran

Dreamships

Multihulls in the year 2000 (written in 1986!)

Lightning Strikes (on Eclipse 2003)

Sailing Techniques

Sailing under Spinnaker

I have also written a few, mainly technical, articles that have yet to be published

Why Sail a Multihull?

Hull Shapes

Rigs

Keels or Daggerboards, the pros and cons

Stability Part 1

Stability Part 2

Stability Part 3