Cyclone is a 23’ trimaran, “foldable” to allow her to be transported over the road. Designed by the talented John Marples, she was built using the “Constant Camber” method developed by John and Jim Brown. It’s similar to stitch-and-glue but instead of using sheet plywood, one creates their own compound-curved panels and joins them together to create the hulls; ingenious and very effective. She was an ambitious project for us, not made any easier by my elaborations including cambered decks over laminated fir deckbeams, a teak-strip cockpit sole, 2-part LPU paint, and an asymetrical spinnaker set on a retractable bowsprit. No Hobie Cats were harmed in the building of this Cyclone; custom rigging was by Manta Marine and sails by Dave Bierig.

Freed from any pretense of trying to cram a cabin into a 23’ boat, Cyclone is a beautifully performing, spacious daysailing trimaran with what I find to be graceful and elegant lines…..call me blasphemous, but I have always thought of her as the mutihull equivalent of Rozinante. She spent the first 15 years sailing the Columbia River. After being trailered cross-country behind my old Volvo wagon, she spent the next 15 years exploring the New England coastline from her home port of Salem. Recently she moved on to a new owner and is now sailing the Chesapeake.