Podcasts by Nautical Lore – Modern | Oral narratives of modern seafaring watercraft with multihull pioneer Jim Brown
This ongoing series of “capers” tells of epic voyages, castaway survivors, swashbuckling characters, family cruises, cultural setbacks, technical breakthroughs, racing triumphs, and the “seasteading” lifestyle. Revealed within these stories are many details of design, construction, operation and seamanship. Since World War Two, the emergence of truly modern, lightweight vessels – recreational and commercial, multihull and monohull, power and sail – constitutes a sea change in marine architecture that may well persist for generations to come. Because modern seafaring has advanced so fast, and yet history often neglects its oral heritage, now is the time for us to gather and share this legacy.
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85: BUY THE BOAT BACK from 2019-08-27T20:42:51
In this caper, Jim shares the story of his summer 2019 ride on one of his “cattlemarans” in the Caribbean.
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84: THE FLEDGLING EAGLE from 2019-04-08T16:22:04
THE FLEDGLING EAGLE
In this 34-minute podcast, the listener is plunged into a detailed descri...
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82: "REAL" BOAT, REAL SKIPPER (Part 3) from 2018-04-05T04:00
FINE PHILOSOPHICAL FILANDERING
Part Three of this flirtation between monohull and multihull, this Cap...
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81: "REAL" BOAT, REAL SKIPPER (Part 2) from 2018-03-29T04:00
UNMARKED FORK IN A DESERT TRAIL
Talking again with Havilah Hawkins Jr. aboard his monumental gaff slo...
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80: "REAL" BOAT, REAL SKIPPER from 2018-03-22T04:00
"REAL" BOAT, REAL SKIPPER
This Caper deviates.
It is a...
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79: ANCHORAGE CONVERSATIONS (Part 2) from 2018-03-15T04:00
ANCHORAGE CONVERSATIONS (Part 2)
Here are a few more Sterncastle Stories with my buddy Larry, which m...
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78: THE 100' FOUR HULLER from 2018-03-08T05:00
THE 100' FOUR HULLER
In this second of two conversations with Roger Hatfield, we learn the backstory ...
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77: KNOT MY PROBLEM from 2018-03-01T05:00
KNOT MY PROBLEM
This Caper has all you need to know about the four-hulled “Tandem Catamaran,” at leas...
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76: REALITY EN SHTICK from 2018-02-22T05:00
REALITY EN SHTICK
To the tune of "Yes, we have no bananas," we have no video today. Or tomorrow, but...
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75: ONE, TWO, THREE OR FOUR (yes, 4) HULLS? from 2018-02-15T05:00
ONE, TWO, THREE OR FOUR (yes, 4) HULLS?
This Caper is mainly a report on the current status of the Ou...
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74: A BOAT FOR TWO BUBBAS from 2018-02-08T05:00
A BOAT FOR TWO BUBBAS
This Caper tells of evolving a small catamaran for taking two big boys fishing,...
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73: THE ANCIENT FUTURE from 2018-02-01T05:00
THE ANCIENT FUTURE
This is my first attempt at looking back on our contemporary multihull stories fro...
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70: PRISON ISLAND from 2018-01-11T05:00
PRISON ISLAND
This caper takes me back to Mexico to retrieve Juana from the canners at Sabo. We...
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69: WITH A CREW OF FOUR (ONE GESTATING) from 2018-01-04T05:00
WITH A CREW OF FOUR (ONE GESTATING)
This is the audio update for Chapter 4 of my book “Among ...
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68: SETTING THE SCENE from 2017-12-28T05:00
SETTING THE SCENE
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67: PROMISE MADE from 2017-12-21T05:00
PROMISE MADE
Well yes, I made a promise to myself, that night at Old Providence Island over sixty yea...
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64: PLAY IT WHEN I'M DEAD from 2017-11-30T05:00
PLAY IT WHEN I'M DEAD
Wishing that I had collected more voice recordings when my subjects were aliv...
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63: ANCHORAGE CONVERSATIONS (Part 1) from 2017-11-16T05:00
61: BOATBUILDING -- WHICH KIND? from 2017-11-02T04:00
BOATBUILDING -- WHICH KIND?
After doing several interview capers, we have here the results of some in...
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60: GONE AGAIN from 2017-10-26T04:00
GONE AGAIN
While I'm away appraising the hurricane damage to Scrimshaw, I hope you will enjoy the con...
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59: CLOSE FRIENDS, CLOSE CALLS from 2017-10-19T04:00
CLOSE FRIENDS, CLOSE CALLS
Jo Hudson speaks of "thrilling" incidents recalled, in 2004, from his fir...
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58: THE SECOND FIRST ENCOUNTER from 2017-10-12T04:00
THE SECOND FIRST ENCOUNTER
Responding to Jo Hudson's passing, I feel obliged to share with you someth...
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57: A BLAST FROM THE PAST, AND PRESENT from 2017-10-05T16:44
A BLAST FROM THE PAST, AND PRESENT
This recorded telephone conversation reveals more of the boundless...
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55: MEMORIAL AND MAINE from 2017-09-22T16:12:09
MEMORIAL AND MAINE
Jim discusses his most recent capers in both Michigan and Maine. First, he talks a...
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54: THE KING OF GLUE from 2017-09-07T04:00
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT "THE KING OF GLUE"
This Caper is a small collection of remarks made to m...
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53: MEADE GOUGEON HAS SAILED AWAY from 2017-08-31T04:00
MEADE GOUGEON HAS SAILED AWAY
This issue is a collection of my own personal recollections of a long f...
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52: PEDALCAT from 2017-08-24T04:00
50: WINGS WITH FOILS from 2017-08-10T04:00
WINGS WITH FOILS
Here's yet more about the Hybrid Wing, its history, and that of other fully-rotating...
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49: WING SAILING (Part 2) from 2017-08-03T04:00
WING SAILING (PART TWO)
Here is the conclusion, for now, of my infatuation with the Hybrid Wing. Ther...
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48: WING SAILING from 2017-07-27T04:00
WING SAILING
Now I've actually been there, folks. Under a 62' Hybrid Wing rig, on a 40' "beach...
47: BIG EXPERIMENTS WITH MULTIHULLS HAPPENING from 2017-07-20T04:00
There are some BIG experiments happening with multihulls right now. In this amazing capercast, Jim talks about the convergence of multihull devel...
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45: THE CHUCUNAQUE from 2017-07-06T04:00
THE CHUCUNAQUE
I'm digging pretty deep here to bring you the kind of story that one withholds u...
44: GOING DOWN from 2017-06-29T04:00
GOING DOWN
An old shipwreck story from my schooner bumming days, it is told here to reach acro...
43: RACE TO ALASKA START from 2017-06-22T04:00
RACE TO ALASKA START
Explains some of the challenges faced by competitors in this endurance tes...
42: Legendary Sailors&Their Stories (Part 2) from 2017-06-15T04:00
More Seafaring Literature from Jim...
In this episode, Jim talks about several great adventures...
41: Legendary Sailors&Their Stories (Part 1) from 2017-06-08T04:00
This nautical lore podcast speaks of legendary sailors and the books (and in some cases, other media) featuring them. Jim also talks briefly abo...
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40: BLIND SAILOR? (Part 2) from 2017-06-01T04:00
40: BLIND SAILOR? (Part 2)
In this portion of our telephone ramble, John Patterson and I speak ...
39: BLIND SAILOR? from 2017-05-25T04:00
39: BLIND SAILOR? (Far from it)
Speaking by cell phone from the Island of Culebra, John Patterson te...
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38: THE 300-NUT CANOE from 2017-05-18T04:00
THE 300-NUT CANOE (And Other Considerations)
This Caper takes us to a salvaged 57-foot catamaran, ups...
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37: SMALL BOAT FUN IN CEDAR KEY from 2017-05-11T04:00
Small Boat Fun in Cedar Key
In this capercast Jim shares about ...
35: SPACE-AGE BOATBUILDING from 2017-04-27T04:00
SPACE-AGE BOATBUILDING
This caper features Jim sharing about his trip to New England this week,...
34: RANDY'S BREAKFAST from 2017-04-20T04:00
RANDY'S BREAKFAST
This Caper is based on a conversation with Randy Smyth recorded aboard Scrims...
33: COCKPIT CONVERSATIONS (Part 1) from 2017-04-13T04:00
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32: CHIEF CHALLENGE AND HIS TRIBE from 2017-04-06T04:00
CHIEF CHALLENGE AND HIS TRIBE
The first of the field interviews has S...
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31: STRANDED ON A WHAT?! (Part 2) from 2017-03-30T04:00
STRANDED ON A WHAT?! (Part Two)
How did he get there? What happened while he was ther...
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30: STRANDED ON A WHAT?! from 2017-03-23T04:00
STRANDED ON A WHAT?!
Cruising for the first time without our two sons as crew, Jo Anna and I h...
Special Edition: NEWS ON NEW WING RIG FROM RANDY SMYTH from 2017-03-16T04:00
News on New Wing Rig from Randy Smyth
In this special edition caperca...
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29: WOLFGANG KRAKER von SCHWARTZENFELD from 2017-03-09T05:00
28: SEASTEADING 101 from 2017-03-02T05:00
SEASTEADING 1O1
Here begins what we hope will be an occasional...
27: THE CAVE AND THE DITCH from 2017-02-23T05:00
THE CAVE AND THE DITCH
How is it that some of us, probably including many listeners to these Ca...
26: SHOOTING VENUS from 2017-02-16T05:00
SHOOTING VENUS
In this continuation of Scrimshaw's passage around Cap...
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25: THE WAY TO CAPE THANK GOD from 2017-02-09T05:00
THE WAY TO CAPE THANK GOD
Intending to describe family cruising with one's wife as literally F...
24: GREATEST BOAT RIDE from 2017-02-02T05:00
GREATEST BOAT RIDE
Story of SCRIMSHAW's greatest one-day boat ride, her transit of the Panama ...
23: RIVALRY from 2017-01-26T05:00
RIVALRY
We should all get equal time to talk about our kids, but that would need we all have P...
21: OCEAN RACING THEN AND NOW from 2017-01-12T05:00
OCEAN RACING THEN AND NOW
On Christmas Day just past, a remarkable solo circumnavigation speed ...
19: RESILIANCE from 2016-12-29T05:00
19: RESILIANCE
A recent survival story, this “caper” features a recorded interview with my long...
18: On Fixing Proa Problems from 2016-12-22T05:00
On Fixing Proa Problems
Special holiday podcast featuring a bit of personal news from Jim's tra...
17: PARK IT, DAD from 2016-12-15T16:22:34
PARK IT, DAD
This Caper is based on one of my favorite stories from, "Among The Multihulls - Volume 2...
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16: BEWARE, PROA CONSTRUCTOR from 2016-12-08T05:00
BEWARE, PROA CONSTRUCTOR
The above title is taken from a sign posted over Dick Newick’s shop in the e...
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15: CAT / TRI COMPARISONS PART FOUR: MOTION, ACCOMMODATION AND SAFETY from 2016-12-01T05:00
CAT / TRI COMPARISONS PART FOUR: MOTION, ACCOMMODATION AND SAFETY
This Caper offers my understanding ...
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14: CAT / TRI COMPARISONS PART THREE: CONFIGURATIONS and STRUCTURES from 2016-11-24T05:00
CAT / TRI COMPARISONS PART THREE: CONFIGURATIONS and STRUCTURES
The contrasting design challenges bet...
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13: MONOHULL - MULTIHULL MINDSETS from 2016-11-17T05:00
12: CAT-TRI COMPARISONS PART ONE from 2016-11-10T05:00
CATAMARAN-TRIMARAN COMPARISONS - PART ONE
In response to feedback from listeners, this “caper” is the...
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11: VOICES FROM THE PAST, PART TWO from 2016-11-03T04:00
VOICES FROM THE PAST, PART TWO
Jim’s most illustrious client, Mark Hassall, reads a long quote from t...
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10: VOICES FROM THE PAST, PART ONE from 2016-10-27T04:00
VOICES FROM THE PAST, PART ONE
By mining old video footage for its sound tracks, Jim brings us the ac...
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9: GRABBING THE BOTTOM from 2016-10-20T04:00
GRABBING THE BOTTOM
Three more anchoring episodes illustrate the tenuousness of Grabbing The Bottom, ...
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8: HIJACKED AND SHIPWRECKED from 2016-10-11T04:00
HIJACKED AND SHIPWRECKED
There are two contrasting anchoring predicaments here: Jim's boat and his fa...
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7: THE DINGHY THAT TRIED TO CLIMB THE MAST from 2016-10-06T04:00
THE DINGHY THAT TRIED TO CLIMB THE MAST
In this anchoring fiasco, Jim tells of how even an experience...
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6: CHUBASCO, THE MEXICAN HURRICANE from 2016-09-29T04:00
Storm Coming...
Sailing past the tip of Baja in the dark, with no lighthouse operating, we find ourse...
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5: LOST AND FOUND from 2016-09-22T04:00
Losing and Finding a Trimaran...
The cultural influences of the 1960s, fear, paranoia and escapism, s...
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4: LEARNING TO “FEEL” A SEAFARING MULTIHULL from 2016-09-16T03:00
Sailing dynamics of the Piver Nugget trimaran at sea.
We now begin to understand the differing dynami...
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3: ARTHUR PIVER, FATHER OF THE MODERN TRIMERAN from 2016-09-15T22:00
Arthur Piver and the Modern Trimaran
About ten years after Woody Brown launched the first truly moder...
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1: WOODY BROWN AND MODERN FAST SAILING BOATS from 2016-09-09T04:00
Modern nautical lore "capercast" with multihull pioneer and historian Jim Brown.
This is ora...
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2: WOODY BROWN AND HIS TRAIL-BLAZING CATAMARAN from 2016-09-09T04:00
Modern nautical lore “capercast” podcast with multihull pioneer and historian Jim Brown.
This is oral...
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