The CC 35 is one of a series of cruising trimarans designed by John Marples (Searunner Designs) in partnership with Jim Brown, and is a successor to Jim’s older Searunner designs of sheet plywood. Constant Camber is a cold molding technique in which the strips are laid up on a mold of constant curvature to form panels which are then butt spliced together and covered with glass fabric and epoxy. The constant curvature enables all the spiles to be the same shape greatly speeding production. The technique creates an exceptionally strong monoque form both lighter and stronger than sheet plywood construction as well as more ascetically pleasing. The hull shape is a curved V. It is a displacement hull, non-planing, but still very fast 17 knots max so far and extremely seaworthy.
Sunbow was built in the Mojave desert while the builder, a machinist, worked for Burt Rutan’s exotic airplane company. It was trucked to Oxnard in three pieces assembled and launched. I bought it in San Diego and sailed it upwind to the Northwest ten years ago. It was barely complete at the time, and I have fully finished and equipped it since then.