3: ARTHUR PIVER, FATHER OF THE MODERN TRIMERAN - a podcast by Jim Brown

Arthur Piver and the Modern Trimaran

About ten years after Woody Brown launched the first truly modern catamaran, a San Francisco man named Arthur Piver succeeds in developing a three-hulled vessel that delivers the all-round performance and maneuverability that the catamarans of the day do not.

I just happen to be there at the right time – late 1950s – and am so consumed by this revelation that I build two of Piver’s early boats and, together with my bride Jo Anna, take one of them to sea.

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