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85: BUY THE BOAT BACK
Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown - August 27, 2019 20:42 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsIn this caper, Jim shares the story of his summer 2019 ride on one of his “cattlemarans” in the Caribbean. Jim sails along on a big catamaran with his entrepreneur-boatbuilder-sailor friend Doug Jane to deliver the boat to a customer. Lots of fun and challenges on this trip … with a little ins...
84: THE FLEDGLING EAGLE
Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown - April 08, 2019 16:22 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsTHE FLEDGLING EAGLE In this 34-minute podcast, the listener is plunged into a detailed description of EAGLE, a 53’ catamaran designed by Paul Beiker and just launched by Fast Forward Composites of Bristol RI. The backstory of the EAGLE’s conception is told, and some key details of this bellw...
83: CUTTING BACK
Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown - April 12, 2018 16:08 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWHAT'S HAPPENING? TOO MUCH! This Caper tells of many Capers -- Too many to permit our weekly schedule from continuing right now, but enough to bring you a new Caper now and then. My Podcast is not going away, and after all, there are over 80 of them posted and accessible any time. But cur...
82: "REAL" BOAT, REAL SKIPPER (Part 3)
Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown - April 05, 2018 04:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsFINE PHILOSOPHICAL FILANDERING Part Three of this flirtation between monohull and multihull, this Caper continues the conversation between Havilah Hawkins, Larry Fortunoff and me aboard the classic sloop VELA. Revealed are the levels of commitment, persistence and conviction that are inter-...
81: "REAL" BOAT, REAL SKIPPER (Part 2)
Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown - March 29, 2018 04:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsUNMARKED FORK IN A DESERT TRAIL Talking again with Havilah Hawkins Jr. aboard his monumental gaff sloop VELA, we approach the subject of parting with one's boat of many years. We then revert to all the things he has done with those many years of vessel stewardship, and inevitably return to end...
80: "REAL" BOAT, REAL SKIPPER
Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown - March 22, 2018 04:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratings"REAL" BOAT, REAL SKIPPER This Caper deviates. It is a conversation with a real schoonerman, largely about a very traditional, single-hulled vessel whose designer, builder and skipper tells the story of how a man and wife with a "real" boat can influence -- in an inspired manner -- the liv...
79: ANCHORAGE CONVERSATIONS (Part 2)
Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown - March 15, 2018 04:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsANCHORAGE CONVERSATIONS (Part 2) Here are a few more Sterncastle Stories with my buddy Larry, which makes this capercast a Part 2 of the Part 1 portion of this chat. Tied to a dock in Maine, with no anchoring worries, with a good friend on a good boat, it is time to tie one on and gather the...
78: THE 100' FOUR HULLER
Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown - March 08, 2018 05:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsTHE 100' FOUR HULLER In this second of two conversations with Roger Hatfield, we learn the backstory of about the most bizarre, yet commercially successful, multihulls ever. And get this: Gold Coast has already started on a second one! If that ain’t “The Ancient Future” now! Listen and learn...
77: KNOT MY PROBLEM
Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown - March 01, 2018 05:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsKNOT MY PROBLEM This Caper has all you need to know about the four-hulled “Tandem Catamaran,” at least enough to really understand it from the next Caper. Roger Hatfield, the co-designer and builder of this futuristic configuration, tells us how the concept, which comes from his client Mr. War...
76: REALITY EN SHTICK
Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown - February 22, 2018 05:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsREALITY EN SHTICK To the tune of "Yes, we have no bananas," we have no video today. Or tomorrow, but maybe someday, even if I have to make it myself. There's a story here, and I'm just trying to get it, and tell it, straight. Nevertheless, there IS video today -- if not much -- as per the lin...
75: ONE, TWO, THREE OR FOUR (yes, 4) HULLS?
Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown - February 15, 2018 05:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsONE, TWO, THREE OR FOUR (yes, 4) HULLS? This Caper is mainly a report on the current status of the OutRig Project. It describes the cast of characters involved in determining that status, plus something of how these individuals have come to be involved. While there is no conclusion on the ma...
74: A BOAT FOR TWO BUBBAS
Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown - February 08, 2018 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsA BOAT FOR TWO BUBBAS This Caper tells of evolving a small catamaran for taking two big boys fishing, with nine chances to get out and back. Those chances are: one breeze, two batteries, four legs and two hulls. These hulls are set just wide enough apart to permit real bubbas to really boun...
73: THE ANCIENT FUTURE
Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown - February 01, 2018 05:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsTHE ANCIENT FUTURE This is my first attempt at looking back on our contemporary multihull stories from the fictional vantage of about 150 years ahead in the future. It is an experiment, done mostly for the fun of it, but hoping to suggest the role that multihulls may play in the long term sa...
72: THE MULTIHULL PHENOMENON
Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown - January 25, 2018 15:25 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsTHE MULTIHULL PHENOMENON To assure our new listeners that these capers are about people as much as they are about boats, this issue starts with an old boat making news. It's an example of how the postwar "Can-Do Generation" dragged multihulls from "the lunatic fringe" into the mai...
71: HOW SEARUNNERS CAME TO BE
Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown - January 18, 2018 05:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsHOW SEARUNNERS CAME TO BE This is Part Two of the audio update to Chapter 5 of Among The Multihulls, which concludes the evolution -- in the 1960s and 70s -- of the Searunner Trimaran design series. It finishes with a highly qualified appraisal of this type of vessel. This story is n...
70: PRISON ISLAND
Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown - January 11, 2018 05:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsPRISON ISLAND This caper takes me back to Mexico to retrieve Juana from the canners at Sabo. We then stumble into a delightful cove on an island where we are not supposed to be, but there is nobody around. We play Robinson Crusoe, catch a lift home, and meander towards the days of Searunner t...
69: WITH A CREW OF FOUR (ONE GESTATING)
Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown - January 04, 2018 05:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWITH A CREW OF FOUR (ONE GESTATING) This is the audio update for Chapter 4 of my book “Among The Multihulls - Volume 1.” It tells of our coastal voyage in the 24' trimaran Juana, probably the first modern trimaran to venture offshore, 1959. It's an old story, told here with some new details ...
68: SETTING THE SCENE
Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown - December 28, 2017 05:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsSETTING THE SCENE In this audio version of Chapter 3 of Among the Multihulls, I attempt to go a little deeper into the "deep history" of how the modern trimaran came into being. It sets the scene for the explosive advent inf the 1960s by describing the ebullience and confidence that brought ...
67: PROMISE MADE
Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown - December 21, 2017 05:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsPROMISE MADE Well yes, I made a promise to myself, that night at Old Providence Island over sixty years ago. I would fasten myself to a life with boats and sailing. And I suppose it would appear that I have kept it, but I'm not suggesting it 's for everyone. For me, the stimuli were so stron...
66: THE LAST NEXT CHAPTER
Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown - December 14, 2017 05:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsTHE LAST NEXT CHAPTER (An Audio Afterword) Here begins a series of Capers stemming from my book AMONG THE MULTIHULLS. They also stem from a text Afterword called THE NEXT LAST CHAPTER, which is posted on www.outrigmedia.com. Now, just two years later, I am adding further commentary to u...
65: DANNY, DOUG AND DAD
Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown - December 07, 2017 05:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDANNY, DOUG AND DAD "Put yourself out there," is the theme of this caper, with three examples of how it's done. Danny Mydlack, our new media consultant, put himself in here by taking the initiative to contact us and make two trips down from Baltimore for gathering footage for our upcoming ...
64: PLAY IT WHEN I'M DEAD
Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown - November 30, 2017 05:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsPLAY IT WHEN I'M DEAD Wishing that I had collected more voice recordings when my subjects were alive, this caper is offered while the subject IS alive, miraculously. My particular friend Bruce Matlack tells of just one of many youthful exploits from back when he was trying to get to Tahiti ...
63: ANCHORAGE CONVERSATIONS (Part 1)
Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown - November 16, 2017 05:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsANCHORAGE CONVERSATIONS - Part One This is what happen when two or more old boat nuts find themselves in a secure anchorage with old friends, a lobster in the pot, and "...A little more than enough to drink, for thirst is a dangerous thing." (Jerome K. Jerome)
62: A CONSUMMATE CRUISER SPEAKS
Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown - November 09, 2017 05:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsA CONSUMMATE CRUISER SPEAKS Here's a guy who sailed in multihulls as an infant, and now owns DELPHYS, a 34' Searunner trimaran which has been called, by John Marples (one of her designers), "The most developed Searunner in the world." And her usage? Well, with her owner/builder crew of Ma...
61: BOATBUILDING -- WHICH KIND?
Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown - November 02, 2017 04:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsBOATBUILDING -- WHICH KIND? After doing several interview capers, we have here the results of some interesting comparisons, resulting from hurricane damage, between good old sheet plywood construction, and "cold molded" or Constant Camber (CC) construction. Design differences between the Sea...
60: GONE AGAIN
Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown - October 26, 2017 04:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsGONE AGAIN While I'm away appraising the hurricane damage to Scrimshaw, I hope you will enjoy the conclusion of my telephone conversation with Lee Bullock, which exemplifies the committed lifestyle of those many individuals who invested substantial portions of their lives to creating the moder...
59: CLOSE FRIENDS, CLOSE CALLS
Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown - October 19, 2017 04:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsCLOSE FRIENDS, CLOSE CALLS Jo Hudson speaks of "thrilling" incidents recalled, in 2004, from his first seafaring voyage (in the mid-1960s) in his owner-built 30' Piver Nimble trimaran, from California to Australia. These Capers are the only examples of Jo's recorded voice telling his own stor...
58: THE SECOND FIRST ENCOUNTER
Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown - October 12, 2017 04:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsTHE SECOND FIRST ENCOUNTER Responding to Jo Hudson's passing, I feel obliged to share with you something of our 55-year, 9-multihull connection. This Caper tells of how we first men (for the second time), and continues with a glimpse of the "can-do" commitment and enthusiasm that typified the...
57: A BLAST FROM THE PAST, AND PRESENT
Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown - October 05, 2017 16:44 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsA BLAST FROM THE PAST, AND PRESENT This recorded telephone conversation reveals more of the boundless enthusiast, willingness to risk, and lifestyle commitment that typified the advent of the early modern multihull. It also contains, at the end, a sad announcement.
56: HOW TO SAVE YOUR BOAT IN A HURRICANE
Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown - September 28, 2017 04:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsIN THE CROSSHAIRS "There's a hurricane coming! What do I do with my boat?" There are several answers to that question, including "Maybe nothing." But that's only if you're out at sea. The more common calamity happens when your boat is in a crowded harbor or marina, or hauled out on l...
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