Design
Custom 31 ft Trimaran
Designed by Peter MenORCA
An owner-designed 31 ft sailing trimaran with an engine, drawn and built by Peter MenORCA in Palauig, Zambales, in the Philippines. It has a long, narrow main hull and two outrigger floats (katig in Filipino), which the builder plans to divide into watertight compartments. The builder grew up making toy paraw, the Philippine outrigger sailboat, and this is a first full-size boat.
The hull is wood, framed from locally sourced lumber. Long timber is hard to find there, so the backbone was joined from two 16 ft lengths. The builder's own sketch shows a single mast of about 27 to 28 ft carrying a mainsail on a 29 to 30 ft boom and a headsail, with a daggerboard amidships, a rudder at the stern and an engine at the transom. The main hull is about 32 to 34 in deep.
There are no published plans for this boat. It is a one-off home design.
What building a Custom 31 ft Trimaran actually takes
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Where the time goes
Hours summed per builder, then the median taken across builders, so someone who logs a step in fourteen short entries doesn’t outweigh someone who logged it in one. Example logs are excluded.
| Step | Median hours | Median spend | Builders |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hull Panels | 8.0 | n/a | 1 |
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