APRIL/MAY 2018 21the road, and not long a er, a plywood thing started grow-
ing under the house and then emerging into the yard. To us
Aussie/monohull/dinghy people, our rst guess was that it
was a caravan. When I tried to convince my carpenter/boat-
builder father that it was starting to look like a boat, he just
laughed. Not long a er that, my curiosity got the better of
me, and on the way home from school I diverted and had a
sneaky look over the fence. ere was a guy under the house
laboring in one of our typical warm summer a ernoons,
covered in sweat and glue. I asked if I could come in and he
downed tools in the most welcoming way to explain to me
what this strange cra was. In a scenario to then be repeated
thousands of times around the world by various methods
and media, Ian Farrier shared his dream with me of safe,
cheap, and fast multihull sailing for the masses. I was skepti-
cal at rst, but when he showed me his detailed plans I was
starting to get quite excited. en he produced a model cut
out of the walls of a can with nails for pivot points. It dem-
onstrated that with pairs of struts balancing the forces
involved, this multihull trimaran with no lead keel could be
trailed behind a family car to all sorts of dream locations,
then sailed safely and quickly in all sorts of waters.”
And from Rob Densem, general manager of Farrier Marine
in Christchurch, New Zealand, to http://www.sailinganarchy.com:
“Ian was a visionary, a multihull genius, an all-round nice
guy who leaves behind a huge legacy to the sailing world.
Farrier Marine Limited is a strong business with a three-
year order book for the revolutionary F-22 sailboat. Despite
dealing with our grief, it is very much ‘business as usual’ at
the factory today. It is our job now to carry on the Farrier
legacy and ensure his vision is carried out.” —D.S.Ian Farrier, who died in December 2017, was a passionate
advocate for multihull hullforms. His clever folding mechanisms
enabled his smaller designs to be towed behind the family auto-
mobile. He hoped that the F-22 (6.7m), which he was working on
day and night at the time of his death, would be affordable for
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