He “foraged” enough to buy a part-built Searunner 37, which would become the SPICE of these stories and in which he eventually doubled the Pacific. Settling in the Marshall Islands, where he built boats for the local government, he then proceeded to Hawaii where he built a 57’ commercial fishing, sailing trimaran, and where he now operates a hydroponics business.

These stories illustrate the gung-ho bravado seen in many early multihull owner-builders, who sometimes learned their seamanship the hard way but persisted in making voyages and surviving incidents that may well have resulted in very different stories if sailed in very different boats. It was Tim and many sailors like him who demonstrated undeniably, to a doubting public, that “multihulls can do it.”