1 Sailing Trimarans ?

30 years ago catamarans were considered unstable. Monohulls were the only boat considered seaworthy. With improvements in design, materials & owner education, catamarans are safely crossing oceans & highly desirable as a living platform.

Trimarans are more stable because a lightweight ama weighing as little as 300Kgs can provide as much upward force from ‘bouyancy’ as 4000Kg to leeward, and the windward 300Kg float is applying that downward force but several meters from the centre so that effect is multiplied. For that reason while we also like the very popular catamarans, we still think they’ve lost the 3rd hull that they should have had.

2 Technology

We have invested the proper number of years in new Design, Materials & Engineering. We’ve advanced infusion technologies beyond several others that use the process because it sells, and are facing claims because their new boats have huge dry-spots in their lamination

• We’ve developed our own processes slowly over more than 5 years perfecting infusion methods which rival pre-preg for it’s complete saturation & perfect cloth-resin ratios.
• We have relationships with factories that offer advanced composite materials not usually found in the UK
• We took the time to invest in CAD & CAM in-house & focussed on structural engineering & flow dynamics rather than layouts & pretty rendering.
• With stubborness &/or persistence, we create things that are essential to making Advanced Trimarans from the best of the latest materials available.
• Other than composites technologies, we are also tinkering with Auto-Pilot, lighting, engines, generators, solar, navigation, water & air-con too. We make the waterproof housings for sensors, relays & the many satellite CPUs that give outputs and take inputs in both fixed locations on the boat and on many hand-held devices. This allows you to turn off the lights in the port-cabin or change the air-con from the trampolines, or drop “sail” & turn 10 degrees to starboard from what we like to call “the dolphin chairs”

3 Marine Community

We’re structuring & populating our community forum with the huge amount of useful sites & information available around the wwweb admittedly somewhat focussed towards our Trimaran passions, but also the most useful things we’re found that help with keeping boating & floating.

4 Related web sites

We know boat ownership is a.k.a “boat repair in beautiful & exotic places”. We have a repairs & maintenance store @ Advanced Trimarans focussed towards marine users. However making Advanced Trimarans drives innovation & improvements in Materials & Technologies, so created an extra 2 websites dedicated to people working in composites who may or may not be sailing with every spare minute !! (See”About us” on the menu for more info)

• If you are into sailing around the world in new fast lightweight boats, or repairing & improving old heavy ones, Advanced Trimarans has the right community & it is free.
• If you are doing repairs or upgrades, consider Composites Crazy where we cater for the needs of individuals that need the ideas and support of like-minded people making everything from glow-in-the-dark frogs to carbon-fiber car bonnets & spoilers.
• If you are a boat-builder or boat yard, or yours is charging the earth for materials, check out ATCompositesUK for higher product volumes at trade & distributor pricing & a community which is more intersteded in Global Commodity News, International Logistics and trade-tariff wars.