Tom was an interesting boatbuilder/designer who lived in
New Jersey, and wrote several
books on the subject: Low-Resistance Boats, and
Multihull Voyaging are two of them. You may very well want to pick up a copy of
Multihull Voyaging if you can find it. He is very much of the go simple, small, and
cheap school. I
lost track of how many trans-Atlantic trips he did on small boats all less than 30 feet and all built by himself, including a couple of cats and a
trimaran too. There was never a lot of fuss in what he did. One day I would get a letter from him in the
Azores or some such place mentioning that he would be back in the next spring, and then I would see him the next year up in
New England. I don't believe he even carried a
VHF radio onboard. He used nothing but a
sextant and a
compass and a lead line on all of his trips. His auxiliary
power on one boat was something like a 3 HP
outboard, but I think most of them carried no
motor.