Sailing Magazine
By Richard Crockett
In 1965 multihulls were still in their infancy, yet the Australian designer and innovator, J S Taylor, told about one of the great feats of little-ship sailing in a 20ft. Trimaran of his own design when he logged a day’s run of 306 nautical miles.
“The log is like a pair of crutches to the unreliable human memory; in turn it is a miserable poor tool to express the subjective impressions of the mind.
“The jotted down record just could not tell about the impossibly-clear winter day, so typical in this part of the year south of the Coral Sea. The SE trade, after having grown tired, is in one of its rare gentle moods and helps to make the most perfect sailing day the cruising man could wish for. The redesigned and rebuilt Maui knifes to windward in a style she never possessed before.
“Tiller lashed, she keeps an unerring course on her own, relieving her skipper from activity. Both the tired mind and body have found the long-sleeked relaxation by fixing a hypnotised gaze on the slender and razor-sharp bows following the swell rhythmically.”
This is an interesting and enlightening read.
READ IT ALL HERE: 1965 05 – SA Yachting – day’s run of 306 miles – OCR
