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"Tin Can" circumnavigation
David Vann and his $25,000 homemade trimaran. Follow this 4 month (...so planned) adventure at http://www.esquire.com/the-side/blog/tincan#
Plans to shove off in 2 weeks-ish.
Here's the backstory - http://www.esquire.com/features/sail...?click=main_sr
His route:
....and Yves-Marie de Tanton!
At first it's totally hairbrained!
The boat is gaunt and emaciated. And looks so amateur - as if every effort was made to avoid a curve because bending was too difficult. And there's Vann saying he's using cheap Home Depot tools.
Yeah, well, Rigid tools are pretty solid and a good buy! Now if he said Harbor Freight....
But here's the minimalist kick in the pants:
The trimaran's designer is one of the most respected, talented yacht designers of our age. He's designed every kind, has a great rep for happily designing specifically for individuals. And Vann is a young experienced ocean sailor. Hence the TinCan. Vann. Tanton.
Still it looks like a couple of jury-rigged stringers and a keel that lost the rest of the ship. There's an absolute minimum of surface area, volume and buoyancy. If you think of a skateboard as transportation, then TinCan is a yacht.
"Built for battle, not built for comfort."
WHY? It's already a hard ship.
Man, this greyhound going to be noisy inside, or what!!!
And moldy.
Looks like it'll be a bear to steer in troubled water, wonder if it'll lie ahulls with a sea-anchor.