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Catching up with chris white.

By Dan Spurr , Jul 25, 2019

White’s Atlantic series of fast cruising catamarans, such as the 57’ (17.4m) shown here, have been his most popular designs; a trademark feature is a second cockpit between the cabin and the mast for superior viewing of sail trim.

It was 36 years ago, in 1983, that multihull designer Chris White hung the proverbial designer’s shingle, Chris White Designs , outside his Massachusetts home. He now boasts more than 80 custom cruising catamarans and trimarans under sail worldwide. In the 1970s, he apprenticed, as it were, with Jim “Trimaran” Brown at his shop in Virginia. Inspired, White built the 52 ‘ (15.8m) cold-molded trimaran Juniper on those grounds, and then sailed the heck out of her. She was an object of great beauty, with the Virginia cedar hull exposed inside. I first met White when he asked editors at Cruising World magazine if any would like to join him as he sailed along with the fleet of that summer’s Classic Yacht Regatta on Narragansett Bay. I jumped at the chance. That day, she fairly glided as if above the water, for at that length, there is zero hobbyhorsing in small chop. We stayed out of the way of the great wooden yachts circumnavigating Conanicut Island, reaching off at speeds unimaginable by the designers and builders of those ancient machines, then zooming back in to the fleet for a closer look.

Chris White and his wife, Kate, have run a successful small design business in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, since 1983.

Cockpit forward

Over the years White, now 65, has developed his own concepts, working more with catamaran hullforms, as they are more marketable than trimarans. His unique design stamp is a cockpit forward of the pilothouse and aft of the mast, which affords superior views of the sails. Performance is a feature of White’s designs, so he walks the fine line between speed and safety—many production cruising catamarans are under-rigged to discourage capsize. His designs range from the Discovery 21 (6.4m) trimaran daysailer, built by Aquidneck Custom Composites  in Bristol, Rhode Island, to the beautiful Atlantic 72 (22m), from the same builder. All White’s designs, including the popular Atlantic series, are built in epoxy/fiberglass/carbon composites for strength, rigidity, and light weight.

Mastfoil Rig

Because of the weight of fully battened large-multihull mainsails, the difficulty handling them, and the risks associated with jibing, White offers the MastFoil rig—two-masts with roller-furling staysails set on self-tending booms.

A somewhat recent development is White’s MastFoil rig featuring two rotating wing spars, each with staysails sheeted to booms to make the sail plan completely self-tending. Noting the inherent shortcomings of mainsails—inefficiency, risks associated with jibing, and time needed to douse in the event of a sudden squall—White asks: “Why not just get rid of the mainsail?” Conventional sloop rigs are, of course, also available and perhaps preferred by most customers, but the MastFoil offers an alternative for those daring to try something different, if not entirely new to the world of sail. White says he has noticed so many big boats in the West Indies setting just headsails, because the big, heavy mainsails are too much work to raise and douse. Rigged with what are in essence two jibs on electric furlers, one can be sailing moments after casting off a mooring. Light-air sails—spinnakers and screechers—are options.

Chile connection

Most of White’s recent builds, plus the spars, have been built at Alwoplast Marine in Chile. The patented MastFoils are carbon tubes inside a non-loadbearing ¼ “ /6mm-wall-thickness foam/carbon airfoil, supported by bushings. In the absence of an autoclave, the carbon spars are made with wet laminate. Hull construction is foam core/epoxy/glass with some carbon in high-stress areas. “They make everything there,” White says. Alwoplast has built eight Atlantic 57s during the seven years they’ve collaborated, this after an earlier builder in South Africa “imploded.” (Read Nigel Calder’s update on South Africa’s catamaran builders ).White says Alwoplast had enough jobs in the pipeline when the 2008 recession hit to get them through to 2010 and beyond.

Custom designs, lots of amenities

When we spoke last spring, White was heading to Bequia, a Grenadine island, with a customer on a 72 ‘ (22m) catamaran. The boat weighed 33,000 lbs (14,949 kg) when launched light and now weighs around 43,000 lbs (19,479 kg) fully loaded, which includes all the amenities designers are accustomed to adding during the build and fit-out—plus an ice cream maker. Yet, the skipper says, even with a fairly conservative rig, the boat routinely sails at 18 kts.

With its considerable beam, the Atlantic 47’s (14.3m) accommodation plan incorporates three doubleberth staterooms, a spacious saloon, and an inside steering station alternative to the outside helm in the forward cockpit.

Working with a standard basic structure of amas, bridge, and pilothouse, each White design is custom. He works closely with the builder and owner, charging a percentage of the build cost. Owners of custom yachts are willing to pay to get what they want, and White’s customers get a handsome multihull yacht with sparkling performance. White is firm in his beliefs, and while he, like all designers, must bend to some customer demands, there are aesthetic and performance lines he won’t cross; if he did, the results wouldn’t showcase those beliefs.

Chris White Designs, 5 Smith’s Way, South Dartmouth, MA 02748 USA, tel. 508–287–6233,

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Chris White

Chris White is one of the worlds most respected designers of racing, and high performance cruising multihulls. Especially well known is the ATLANTIC line of cruising catamarans. Chris White Designs 5 Smith’s Way South Dartmouth MA, 02748 U.S.A. Phone: 508.636.6111

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The new Atlantic 47 offers exciting improvements over her earlier, smaller sisters, including the revolutionary MastFoil (patented) rig, an expanded pilot house, and an innovative galley up/galley down configuration. The A47 is an excellent performer, combining fast sailing, great cruising livability and ease of handling that the Atlantic Cats are known for. All in an affordable under 50-foot length!

Construction

Hulls, decks, bulkheads and pilothouse are constructed from vacuum bagged Epoxy-Vinylester resin and high performance glass fiber laminate cored with PVC foam.

Carbon fiber reinforced crossbeams

Kevlar reinforcements in hull bows on inside skin.

All exterior surfaces are spray painted with Alexseal linear polyurethane coating.

Interior joinerwork and floorboards are cored panels to provide rigidity at low weight.

Propulsion and Steering

Twin Nannidiesel/Kubota N4-38 (38 HP) diesel saildrive engines

1 x 3kw direct drive generator

Deluxe instrument panels with tachometer, oil pressure, volt meter and water temp gauge.

Primary and secondary fuel filters.

BRIGHT fluorescent lights in each engine room.

Dual “ZF Micro Commander” electronic single lever engine controls mounted at both the cockpit helm station and pilothouse inside helm.

Flex-O-Fold Bronze geared folding propellers

Rudder blades are fiberglass composite, high performance hydrofoil section with solid rudder stocks turning in low friction bushings.

Mast and Booms

Double tapered carbon fiber masts, fitted with lightweight composite MastFoils and trailing edge flap.

Lightning ground.

Masthead light, masthead VHF, wind instruments

MastFoil rotation controls, halyards are led to cockpit.

Jib Booms for self tacking.

Self tacking jib hardware each with Harken Unit 2E electric reefing/furler.

Carbon jib booms, forward composite crossbeam and compression beam.

Fusion moulded sails by Quantum Sails. UV cover on foot and leech. Self tacking hardware.

Screecher on composite bowsprit, Facnor FX2500 Furler

Standing Rigging

Type 316 1×19 SS wire headstay inside furler.

Dynex Dux (low stretch Dyneema) shrouds

Running Rigging

Dyneema halyards and control lines. Low stretch Dacron sheets.

Deck Hardware

Harken “Radial” self tailing winches:

Two, Harken #46 Electric Radial winch for jib outhaul/sheet

Two, Harken #46 Radial winch vang/preventer controls

0ne, Harken #40 Radial winch for mizzen halyard

Two, Andersen Line Drivers for MastFoil control

Harken ball bearing blocks are standard equipment.

Spinlock rope clutches

Fins with adjustable flap

Two cored glass fiber fins moulded to hull bottoms, each with adjustable trailing edge flap controlled from nav station.

Collision Bulkheads

Each hull has a collision bulkhead forward.

(4) Solar Panels, 130 watt output each

12-volt circuit breaker panel with voltage and amp meters.

800 a/h deep cycle battery house bank

Battery monitor

Separate engine start battery

LED interior lights

Resolux full spectrum fluorescent lights in galley, engine rooms and work areas

LED blue night lighting within the pilothouse.

Chart light

Electric horn

Six, 12V Sockets for chargers,

(1) each mid cabin

(2) nav station

helm station

Victron Phoenix inverter 12/3000 to provide AC power from the batteries.

110v AC outlets are installed in the following places. (1) each head, (1) galley, (1) workbench, (2) nav. Station, (1) port side of pilothouse settee. (1) stern cockpit

(1) near each midship double berth

Sound System

AM/FM/CD player with 4 speakers (2 cockpit, 2 pilothouse)

2 x Composite 45 gallon each diesel fuel tank with deck fill, shut off and gauge

1 x Composite 80 gallon water tank with deck fill, vent and gauge

1 x Composite 50 gallon holding tank.

Navigation Electronics

NKE Wind/speed/depth instruments

NKE autopilot, independent from main steering system

Furuno 14” touch screen chart plotter/radar in pilothouse

Furuno 9” touch screen chart plotter/radar in cockpit

Icom M-604VHF radio

Sat Com: Iridium Pilot

Hull and Deck Ventilation

13 Deck hatches, all Lewmar Ocean Series. Accommodation area hatches are equipped with roller shade/screens.

(1) Goiot hatch is installed on the port hull inboard side as an “escape” hatch.

(3) Lewmar Atlantic opening portlights with clear plexi windows,

Lewmar Atlantic model opening port is located adjacent to each double berth

Cowl vents each head

(8) Caframo “Bora” fans, two in each double berth, two in pilothouse

Rails and Lifelines

Custom fabricated SS stanchions and lifelines with solid s.s. grab rail next to pilothouse and extending to s.s. mid-ship boarding gates.

(2) SS Transom grab rails

Integral swim step on rudder

Anchor Handling

Dual bow anchor rollers enable two anchors to be easily used at the same time.

Dual Lewmar V3 windlass with rope/chain gypsy and dual direction switch for each anchor .

Self-bailing lockers for self stowing chain and rode.

Anchor washdown 12V pump

Ground Tackle

Two anchors and rodes are supplied. Primary anchor is Spade S-100 (44 lb) with 100’ of 3/8” H.T. chain and 250’ 5/8” three strand nylon anchor rode. The second anchor is a Fortress with 5/16″ chain and 250′ of 1/2″ rode.

Cleats and Docklines

Six 10″ docking cleats, 2 bow, 2 stern, 2 spring line

Two 10” mooring cleats

Four (4) 5/8″ 3 strand nylon docking lines each 40′ in length

Navigation Lights

LED masthead Tri-color and anchor light

Mast mounted steaming light

LED deck level running lights

Exterior Lighting

Cockpit, Blue LEDs

Aft deck amber LED lights

Aft deck floodlight on carbon pole (radar mount)

Varnished Spanish Cedar cabinet door frames, fiddles and trim.

Teak and holly laminate soles in accommodation spaces

Semi-gloss polyurethane finish, color eggshell white, in accommodation areas.

Thera-Tex Symphony fabric for pilothouse settee seats and other cushions.

Port and starboard settee seats both have a varnished wood table. Port side table is custom seachest by SeaStrike Marine. Starboard side table is a custom dining table also by SeaStrike Marine. Settee seats have partitioned stowage beneath via lift out covers in the seat top. Window shades.

Pilothouse Steering Station

A 28” destroyer type wheel, leather wrapped, is mounted to starboard with a 4″ flush mount Ritchie SS-2000 compass, engine instrument panels, electronic gear shift/throttle control located within easy reach of the wheel.

Pilot House Nav. Station

Extra large chart table measuring 54″ x 30″ with full size chart drawer beneath

Two file drawers.

Ample space for nav and satcom gear.

Extra outlets for laptop computers, printer, etc.

Tank Tender, tank monitor.

Blue courtesy lights

Dimmer for main overhead lights.

High strength Dyneema knotless net.

6′ x 16′ open area aft deck with seat on port side, storage lockers starboard. Painted non-skid surface.

Custom awning on SS frame

Amber night lighting and flood light.

Composite dinghy davits with hoisting tackle.

Blue courtesy lights.

Outboard motor lift

Force 10, four burner propane stove with automatic temperature control oven and broiler. A remote solenoid propane shut-off switch is provided. Custom exhaust hood and fan.

Two 20lb. composite propane bottles are located in a self venting locker

Microwave oven installed in the galley.

Galley sink is a deep bowl polished stainless steel with strainers set flush into a Granicoat counter top.

Hot and cold pressurized water delivered by single lever pressure water mixer.

Ample drawers, lockers and shelves for storage. Built in trash container.

Refrigeration

A custom fabricated side by side refrigerator/freezer (approx 8 cu/ft capacity) is located in the galley, inboard side. Adjustable shelves included in each compartment. Each unit uses a separate highly efficient SeaFrost compressor with electronic control thermostat providing redundancy.

Port hull has a separate aft cabin which contains two single berths. The outboard berth folds up against the hull when not in use. A built in desk is located against the aft bulkhead with additional stowage below. A 36″ tall locker is located at the forward end of the folding berth. A deck hatch and opening port provide excellent cross ventilation.

Midship Cabins

Each hull has a sleeping cabin amidships that contains a large queen sized berth (60″ x 80′). A hanging locker, storage cabinet and bookshelf is included. A large deck hatch and an opening port provides excellent ventilation.

(2) LED reading lights.

(2) Caframo “Bora” Fans

(1) 12v outlet near berth

(1) 120v a/c outlet near berth

Mattresses with adjustable Froli springs beneath to help ventilate.

Each head is equipped with a vanity with polished stainless steel sink with hot/cold pressure water. Granicoat laminate countertop and stowage locker beneath. Two large stowage lockers with shelves for towels, etc. are within easy reach.

Lavac toilet plumbed to holding tank with valves for overboard discharge as well as pump out.

Semi-gloss polyurethane finish for easy cleanup

Hot/cold pressure water with single lever mixer

Waterproof light

Isotemp 40 liter dual function (dockside power or engine heat exchanger) water heater.

A hot and cold water pressurized rinse station is installed on the stb. hull transom boarding platform.

Workbench (port hull)

Polished SS counter

Drawers and lockers under workbench for tool and parts storage

Lockers above for stowage

Washer/dryer, Splendide #2100XC, mounted at forward end of workbench

Exterior Finish

The entire above water line exterior of the boat is spray painted with Alexseal™ linear polyurethane coating. Hull color is Grecian Green. Deck non-skid is Cream with White gloss border.

Watermaker – Spectra Newport 400 Mk2​

Miscellaneous

Fenders, (4) 10″ PAR inflatable fenders

Three fire extinguishers with stainless steel mounts

Automatic fire extinguisher system in engine rooms

Dinghy, AB 10′ Lamina with 15HP Yamaha, electric start

Safety gear required

Engine spares

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Brand: Chris White

Chris White Catamaran designs are custom built boats by professional boat builders or can be home built. Chris White pioneered the foredeck cockpit first appearing in his Atantic series catamaran design and now featured on many cruising catamarans. He also invented the unique MastFoil rig, which can be described as two large jibs on booms set fore-and-aft in front of twin masts encased in fully rotating airfoils, but this hasn’t caught on. To say Mr.White is an innovator of catamaran design would be an understatement. Although known as a catamaran designer, as opposed to a builder, his contribution to the evolution of cruising catamaran design must be noted.

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1997 Chris White Atlantic

• Saint James City, FL, US

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*** Moisture Has Been Found In The Cross Beam Under The Mast by a Surveyor. The Survey is Available to Serious Buyers.*** The $165,000 Price is the Survey Value AS IS! 

Chris White Designs Catamarans are among the most sought after catamarans. They are rare, fast, and striking in appearance. Chris White Design Catamarans feature innovative design, such as forward helm station and easy to handle sailing controls.

• New Yanmar Diesels (2104)
• New Sail Drives (2014)
• Newer Main and Jib
• 2 Piece "Stack Pack Style" Sail Cover (Turquoise) 
• Solar Panels

This example will be noticed in any anchorage and will sail circles around most catamarans. The easy to operate, daggerboard design is perfect for very fast upwind performance when lowered and shallow draft for getting the best pick for anchorage.

"Chris White's design is brilliant. Unlike all other catamaran designs I know of, Chris's Atlantic cats feature a waist-high cockpit forward of the pilot house and right behind the mast that you walk into from the pilot house through a full-size door. Catalyst's pilot house is the perfect complement to its forward cockpit. Now that I've been living in it for a while, I can say it is the best "room" I've ever owned, a combination of living room, study, office, observation perch, and (its designed functions) inside steering station and navigation station."   -  Sib Reppert aboard "Catalyst" in the S. Atlantic, June 2001

Specifications

Descriptions, basic information, dimensions & weight, tank capacities, accommodations.

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The layout features a midship cockpit set up for short handed sailing.  The full visibility pilot house is aft of the cockpit and features a duplicate steering station with engine controls and instruments on the starboard side.  The navigation station is located to port and features a 53" x 27" chart table with large chart storage beneath plus drawer storage. The cherry drop leaf dining table with wine bottle storage beneath and upholstered settee is located center aft in the pilot house. 

The hulls, pilot house and shower are painted with a semi-gloss white.  The interior has varnished cherry trim, corner posts and fiddles that compliments the teak and holly sole in accommodation spaces.  

The starboard hull consists of a step down galley located next to the salon area.  There is a large cabin located midships that features a queen size Pullman berth.  A separate head with basin and vanity is forward of the cabin.  A single cabin is all the way forward in the starboard hull.

The port hull features a single cabin forward.  Next aft is a head, basin and vanity followed by a second large cabin mid ships with queen size Pullman berth. A workbench area with laminate counter, cutout and backing plate for vice as well as (2) drawers and (2) lockers for tool and parts storage is aft of the sleeping cabin.  Opposite is more storage and shelves for books. A large separate shower compartment is located aft in the port hull.

The spotless galley is a step down off the salon area and is located in the starboard hull.  There is lots of good counter space and storage.

• Laminate counter tops
• (2) deep stainless steel sinks with hot/cold pressure water
• Regal 4 Burner Stove/Oven
• Custom upright built in refrigerator/freezer 
• Manual fresh water pump
• Foot operated saltwater pump

The Atlantic 42 is designed with cruising in mind and has the ability to carry enough gear without compromising performance of 200+ miles per day passages.  The pilothouse is secure and offers great visibility and inside steering in foul weather.  The cockpit is forward of the pilot house and is deep and secure.  It is 6'4" wide by 6'9" long with stowage below cockpit seats and a custom steering pedestal with instrument and engine control mounts.  All lines for trimming and reefing are at your fingertips for ease of handling. 

Both working sails have been replaced and are in excellent condition.  All halyards and reefing lines are led aft to cockpit.  The boom has internal reefing lines and outhaul.

• Adjustable centerboard in each hull
• (1) Lewmar #44 ST main sheet and main halyard winch
• (2) Lewmar #48 ST primary jib sheet winches
• (2) Lewmar #44 ST winches for traveler control and spinnaker sheets
• (2) 6' adjustable jib sheet lead tracks
• (2) Harken adjustable jib lead cars
• (4) cast SS pad eyes for running/reaching jib leads
• Harken blocks
• 20' wide Harken mainsheet traveler
•  Lewmar superlock rope clutches
• Harken barber-haulers
• SS stanchions and lifelines
•  SS bow and stern rails
• Transom grab rails
• Integral swim step on both sterns
• (6) 10" mooring cleats, 2 bow, 2 stern, 2 spring lines
• (3) opening ports in each hull 
• (2) opening ports adjacent to each double berth
• (6) Lewmar deck hatches in pilot house
• Vents in engine rooms and in each head
• Dinghy davits
• Dual bow anchor rollers
• Bimini over Cockpit
• New Twin Yanmar 30hp diesel engines replaced in 2014 with very low hours 
• New Sail Drives Replaced in 2104
• Dual instrument panels with tach and engine monitoring lights and alarms
• Primary and secondary fuel filters
• Dual single lever Mathers engine controls mounted at the cockpit helm station and pilothouse
• Propellers - bronze geared folding type
• Rudder blades are fiberglass composite, high performance 
• Hydraulic steering 

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1 man found dead, 2 still missing after boat crashes into jetty

OLD SAYBROOK, Conn. (WFSB/Gray News) - Officials say one man was found dead and two others are missing after a boat crashed into a jetty in Connecticut.

The Coast Guard says a boat carrying nine people crashed into a jetty along the Connecticut River at high speed. The call was received around 9 p.m. Monday, WFSB reports .

A single motorboat was found, half-submerged, near the Harbor One Marina in Old Saybrook. There was significant damage to the boat.

Six people – a man and five women, whose ages range from mid-20s to 30s – were rescued. They were all taken to the hospital.

Authorities began searching for three missing men, who were reportedly not wearing life jackets.

One of the missing men was found dead during the search early Tuesday, according to officials with the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

The search for the two remaining victims, both in their 20s, has been suspended until sunrise, officials say.

Guilford’s dive team responded, along with boats, personnel and ambulances from nearby towns, working to locate and assist the missing persons.

The Coast Guard also sent a helicopter from Cape Cod to assist search efforts.

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