But Traveler was built to be shown at Strictly Sail in Chicago some years ago. Didn't sell, and I wound up with the boat. She was a pretty hot sail, easy to capsize-light weight, narrow Didn't even have cleats for the sheets. We wanted something we could beach camp from here around Matagorda Bay, which has many many miles of primitive area. Can get lonesome if you get in trouble.

So before the Texas 200, 2008, I had Graham Byrnes ( B and B Yacht designs) draw up the amas, and I designed the cross arms/ connectives to turn her into a trimaran. Became a helluva a boat. She's now sailed in three Tex200 events, 200 miles up the inside Texas coast over 5 days. She's 18 feet by 10 and weighs maybe 400 pounds empty. Carries 110 square feet, sprit boom rigged.

Look at the 200 website, 2008, 2009, pics

WWW.texas200.com.

Here's a video link to Traveler sailing at speed, both sails reefed, in the 2008 200. Logging 12.5 here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3c0nZhPI4s&feature=related

And here's a link to a vid shot by my crew from aboard during the 2012 Tex200. The opening shot is me standing in Traveler. She did a really nice job.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3h2pd5u6l4&feature=relmfu

She got named Traveler, because she was built in Texas, trucked to Chicago, sailed in a lake there for the first time, then trailed to Kentucky Lake (where I got her back) for her second sail. then trailered to Passcagoula Miss and sailed in the Escatawpa River (third time), then BACK to Texas, and sailed fourth time in Matagorda Bay. Figured twice across the nation, and sailing in four states, the name fit.