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01-06-2006, 19:15
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2006
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Jim Brown of Searunner Trimarans
Hello all,
Just wondering if Jim Brown is still living, and if so, does anyone have a current address and/or phone number? Or is someone handling his designs?
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01-06-2006, 22:07
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Minneapolis MN
Boat: Searunner 40 Trimaran, Siruis 22 mono, 16 foot MFG daysailor
Posts: 515
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Jim is still alive. The Searunner Designs are being handled by John Marples now. The last contact info I have is
John Marples
PO Box 1437
St Augustine FL 32085
904 824 2688
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22-06-2008, 23:33
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Mid-Willamette Valley area, Oregon
Boat: Searunner 34 Trimaran
Posts: 80
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John Marples moved to Sonoma, California. His current address is
John R. Marples
17240 Hillcrest Avenue
Sonoma, CA. 95476
Phone/Fax (707) 343-1378
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23-06-2008, 01:34
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario - 48-29N x 89-20W
Boat: (Cruiser Living On Dirt)
Posts: 52,230
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See also The Searunner Owner’s Page:
Searunner_Trimarans
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"If you didn't have the time or money to do it right in the first place, when will you get the time/$ to fix it?"
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23-06-2008, 04:53
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Eastern Seaboard
Boat: Searunner 34 and Searunner Constant Camber 44
Posts: 949
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GordMay
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I saw that site, but it's pretty much dead. Or least in a coma and ready to be pronounced dead. 
Come to think of it, I think I have read pretty much everything on the web related to Searunner trimarans, including the over 5000 webpages. Once I finish up reading though all of Roy M’s posts, find a copy of the Case for the Cruising Trimaran and Searunner Construction Manual (both of which you used to own Gord, if I recall correctly) I think I’ll finally be done. Some would call is obsessive compulsive, shrinks might call it anal-retentive (note to self: double check that is hyphenated), my wife calls it binge researching. I just call it fun.
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Maren
The sea is always beautiful, sometimes mysterious and, on occasions, frighteningly powerful.
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23-06-2008, 05:35
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario - 48-29N x 89-20W
Boat: (Cruiser Living On Dirt)
Posts: 52,230
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Maren
.. the Case for the Cruising Trimaran and Searunner Construction Manual (both of which you used to own Gord, if I recall correctly... |
Sorry, I can't help /w the books.
I don't think I've ever seen the Construction Manual, and would have borrowed the Case for the Cruising Trimaran from the public library.
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Gord May
"If you didn't have the time or money to do it right in the first place, when will you get the time/$ to fix it?"
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23-06-2008, 07:41
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: chesapeake.
Boat: searunner 31
Posts: 42
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Right now there are 4 used copies of Case for the Cruising Trimaran on Amazon.com ranging from ... are you sitting down? ... $33. to $45.
I guess these books are becoming collectables.
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.....and when the leeward ama takes water over the deck, you should have reefed already.....jim brown.
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23-06-2008, 10:57
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Mid-Willamette Valley area, Oregon
Boat: Searunner 34 Trimaran
Posts: 80
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I have two copies of the Searunner Construction Manual. One predates the other because one has the 34 in it; the other doesn't.
I bought a copy new of the Case for the Cruising Trimaran back when it was still in publication. Still have it. Some years ago I found another copy used at a yard sale and paid $4 for it. I made the mistake of loaning to a trustworthy friend who loaned it to his brother. I never got it back, so my copies stay with me now. If you need a specific page or two, and I can get copyright clearance, I will make a copy to mail or pdf to you.
Rann
ETAK, Searunner 34 # 15
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08-09-2008, 19:56
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Eastern Shore of Virginia
Boat: m36 cat
Posts: 4
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Jim Brown lives off of Mobjack Bay in the Chesapeake
He lives up one of the creeks. One of his sons works or runs a nearby boatyard. Jim is suffering from macular degeneration but is working hard to document the homebuilt multihull movement for the Mariner's Museum. Jim suffered a bit from multihull groupies for a time, but of course production cats have dealt the trimaran movement a blow these days and he probably doesn't have that problem anymore. As someone mentioned earlier, John Marples handles the design business. Jim is a great contributor to the multihull movement and as old as they are, his searunners are still great boats.
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08-09-2008, 21:16
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2003
Boat: Dragonfly 1000 trimaran
Posts: 7,291
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I met Jim in the anchorage at Isla San Francisco (Mexico BCS) back in the late '90's.
We were thinking about a cat or tri at the time, so we talked about multihulls for several hours aboard his boat. Great guy. His son came into the same anchorage aboard his proa that afternoon.
From the small world department: We now own a trimaran and just last weekend we anchored in Mats Mats Bay, just about ten miles from our house in Whidbey Island WA.
Who should come into the anchorage but Jim's son on his proa! He said he was on the way to Port Townsend for the annual Wooden Boat Festival.
Steve B.
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08-09-2008, 23:52
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Vancouver, Can.
Boat: Woods 40' catamaran
Posts: 277
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Glad to hear JZERO is still sailing. From reading one of Russ's stories about it, it sounded like a fast but capsizable boat!
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09-09-2008, 01:17
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: cairns australia
Boat: now floating easy37
Posts: 636
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if you want to read a very interesting account of building a jim brown boat under the most amazing conditions then check this out i assure you itll glue to the screen for at least half an hour
How THAT Came About - Index
sean
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09-09-2008, 04:18
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Colombo
Posts: 1,059
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Quote:
Originally Posted by northerncat
...i assure you itll glue to the screen for at least half an hour. |
It did that. Was well worth a read - thanks.
John
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09-09-2008, 11:48
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: May 2008
Location: near Annapolis
Boat: PDQ 36 & Atlantic 42
Posts: 1,178
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Is there an epilogue?
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09-09-2008, 12:46
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Minneapolis MN
Boat: Searunner 40 Trimaran, Siruis 22 mono, 16 foot MFG daysailor
Posts: 515
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How That Came About was first published in Multihulls Magazine. It is one of the best boatbuilding stories I have read. I remember reading a few stories about Mark doing some cruising in the Pacific on That. The most recent mention I have come across is in "The Log of Ithaka by the Bernons about their cruise around Central America several years ago. They mention meeting Mark Hassall and his Guatemalan wife on a land based trip in the highlands of Guatemala. He was doing handcrafting/fine woodworking and his wife was making jewelry. I assumed That had passed on to new owners as there was no mention of it. It included a picture of Mark and his wife. This was a few years ago so I don't know if my recollection is 100% accurate.
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