Summary
Date happened: 19 69>72 Date posted: 2010/4/1 Size: 13 pages
First chapter for Jim Brown’s memoir of modern multihull history and lore.
Author’s contact: outrig.org@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
Chapter 2 - Promise Made
The author meets his first and most formative mentor, an early multihull pioneer. Schooner bumming together, they voyage from Miami to Colombia in 1956 with a very game young woman in their crew. This mentor and woman disappear from the story for the next thirty years, but the author resolves to pursue a nautical life on his own. Obsessively keeping this youthful resolution is the theme of the next nine chapters.
Note: The following description is repeated from the Summary for the Foreword to this book. To see the Foreword itself,(two pages) click FOREWORD. Chapter 1 is posted on the Time Line.
AMONG THE MULTIHULLS
A Memoir by Jim Brown
DESCRIPTION
After fifty years of designing, building and seafaring catamarans, trimarans and proas, multihull pioneer Jim Brown, offers Volume One of his personal memoir
The focus of this two-volume work is on how the advent of modern multihulls has shaped the authors life and the lives of his colleagues, clients, shipmates and family. Volume One recounts multihull incidents and milestones from the 1940s to the 1970s, with a second volume in preparation covering from the ‘70s to the present. Brown identifies the cultural and geopolitical context from which modern multihulls emerged; explains the phases of their design, construction and application; and traces their progress from derision to acceptance in yachting, ocean racing, seasteading, and in commercial and military service.
Largely autobiographical, the book contains many sea stories of the author’s and his client’s escapades, mishaps and achievements. Brown relates the adventures of “seasteading” in foreign waters for years with his family, and then describes how, at age 76, his personal world view has been shaped by incidents in the books, and draws scenarios of what multihulls may mean to the future of humankind.
Multimedia coverage…
To see examples of the OutRig! multimedia presentation of “Among The Multihulls” and other productions, you may wish to visit the following links:
• As a free site launching special, the first three chapters of “Among The Multihulls” are to be serialized monthly here on OutRig! To read Chapter 1 and 2, ,see the listing on the OutRig! Time Line.
• This book has an introductory VIDEO titled “The Multihull Pioneers.” Featuring profiles of five early multihull trail blazers, it appears in two ten-minute segments on You Tube as listed on the Time Line.
• The above video has a text counterpart. It is the original manuscript (before editing) of an article from WoodenBoat magazine titled “Multihull Pioneers.” It contains more detailed profiles of the same five early trail blazers featured in the video. This and other articles are listed on the Time Line (goes first to its Summary as with all Time Line listings).
• Text downloads and extensive on-line graphics for all the succeeding chapters of this book, and also the print edition of Volume One, will all be available soon.
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