Chris White (multihull designer)

Chris White is an American multihull sailboat designer.[1][2]

Career

White built his first trimaran, a Jim Brown designed Searunner 31, in 1973.[1] In the late 1970s he worked with Jim Brown and Dick Newick.[1] His first large design was the 52' trimaran, Juniper, built in southern Virginia and launched in 1981, later sailed around the world by Henk de Velde.[1][3] In 1983 he started his design business, developing the concept of the forward cockpit or pilot house catamaran.[1] The first of the Atlantic Cats were launched in 1985.[1]

Designs

Books

In 1990 Chris published The Cruising Multihull, which is still in print.[1]

See also

References
  1. "Biography: Chris White".
  2. "Chris White". Sailboat Data.
  3. "1981 Chris White 52 Juniper Trimaran, Puerto Rico (US$95,000)". 2018. 'Juniper' was designed, built and sailed for 25 years, by the designer Chris White and his wife, before she was sold to the renowned Dutch sailor, Henk de Velde. Henk completed a mostly solo, high latitude circumnavigation from 2007 to 2011, making it his 6th circumnavigation.
  4. "Atlantic Catamaran FAQs". Archived from the original on 2010-02-01.
  5. "Atlantic 47". Archived from the original on 2014-12-24. Retrieved 2015-01-04.


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