Article on Rudy Choy and the development of the pioneering C/S/K Catamarans

From the following article on the excellent outrig.org site

 

http://outrig.org/multihull-stories/barry-choy-article-from-multihulls.html

 

25th Anniversary Issue • January/February 2000
MULTIHULLS Magazine

Tribute to the Living Legends: Designers
RUDY CHOY

After “Catamarans Offshore”
By BARRY CHOY



Aikane, photo courtesy of Proafile

In 1970 the MacMillan Company published “Catamarans Offshore,”
a watershed book written by Rudy Choy in an attempt to set forth
the legacy of his famed partnership C/S/K and totell the story
of how he and his partners, Warren Seaman,
Alfred Kumalae and Vince Bartolone, evolved their ideas
and principles of successful catamaran design. From the
earliest beginnings, specifically the late 1950s, they understood
what even some of the most skeptical and hardened
yachting traditionalists have only recently come to
accept: that multihulls are not only superior to conventional
yachts in many respects, but more importantly, are
the wave of the future. From the very beginning Rudy,
Warren, Alfred and Vince’s fundamental design standards
were creativity, simplicity and evaluation by careful empirical
observation, notions that today stand anyone desirous
of building anything operating according to the
laws of physics, in good stead. The acid-test of success for
each of their creations was conducted, not by using a slide
rule, or with the boat tied to some dock as a showpiece,
but in the open ocean.

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There is also an excellent article on proafile on the C/S/K catamarans and it shows in a bit more detail some of the early craft with photos

http://proafile.com/archive/article/110