DESIGN AWARD:

JIM ANTRIM / ANTRIM ASSOCIATES
NOVEMBER 2002 AWARD

Jim Antrim caught the world's attention when with Alex Kozloff he designed the 62' electric powered trimaran Duffy Voyager for the Duffy Electric Boat Company.  The Duffy Voyager set and holds a world record for battery powered boating with the 52-mile round trip crossing from Newport Beach to Catalina Island.

The Duffy Voyager is but one of many, many cutting-edge Antrim designs.  Graduating from the Webb Institute of Naval Architecture in 1972, Jim Antrim has designed a multitude of sleek, efficient, lightweight advanced-composite multihull and monohull sailboats, commercial and cruising powerboats, and electric boats, as well as smaller, utility, and purpose-built designs. Shown above and below is his 40' Racer/Cruiser Tri, a fully demountable trimaran (for road transportation) built by Atlantix Innovations Marines, Inc.

"In 18 knots of wind, the first test sail showed speeds of 21 knots with only small jib and main." The design is equally graceful as either a performance design (shown here) or as a cruiser with stand-up headroom (shown on the Antrim Design web site)

A masterful composites engineer capable of designing strong lightweight durable structure, and a designer capable of the most graceful lines always equally practical as beautiful, Jim Antrim continues to impress with one unique design after another.
It will be exciting to continue to watch the designs which come off the Antrim drawing board in the days, months, and years to come.  If you don't already have the Antrim Design web site bookmarked, now is the time to take a look.

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