Why?

Why did we decide to build a new trimaran after three years on the fantastic Catamaran Sage? Well, that’s a long story… Let’s start at the beginning!

I had been sailing on SF Bay for many years, beginning in El Toro class dinghy’s at the Richmond Yacht Club Junior program at a very young age. I stopped sailing for a while while I pursued other things, but eventually I started sailing again. I joined a few different racing crews, but eventually became regular crew on Petard, and later on Ahi, with the great generous SF Bay skipper Andy Newell. After a while I made the unwise choice to get my own boat, so I wanted to check out a few things.

I got a ride on Chris Harvey’s F25C Carbon trimaran in 2014 and I thought “I gotta get me one of THESE!” Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately for me) F25Cs are pretty rare. So I started looking at the Corsair Dash 750. I thought I had some time because they also aren’t that common on the used market, but the very next day one showed up in the Latitude 38 “Classy Classifieds,” and I made a phone call.

The boat’s current owner was a retired firefighter, who was used to keeping things spotless, and the boat was lightly used, always stored on the trailer, and in great shape. I just needed a little work to get her ready to race.

I renamed her “Relentless.” She proved to be very fast. Not as fast as Mojo, but still pretty fun. Here we are ripping upriver on the Delta Ditch Run in 2015 (video credit to Chris Harvey).

I owned Relentless for 5 years, and used her to race in the BAMA series on SF Bay with limited success. We had lots of fun though!

Upon retiring from Apple, my wife Liz and I wanted to go cruising and needed a bigger platform to live aboard, so we comissioned Sage, a Balance 442, from Balance catamarans in South Africa.

After three years in the Caribbean we were feeling the pull of the land, and started scouting locations in Spain. The plan was to look around, up and down the Mediterranean coast and find a good place to live, and to sail. We thought we might move in two or three years. In July of 2024 we landed in Valencia, Spain. We immediately fell in love with the city, and we were extremely lucky to meet an American couple who were moving out of their flat in Russafa. It was a really nice place, at a very decent price, so we signed a lease, even though it was at least a year before we’d be able to occupy the flat. We spent the rest of the summer in Europe.

The trimaran bug had never left me; I missed the performance of three hulls. So while in Europe we traveled to Denmark to check out the Dragonfly factory, and we were treated to a test sail on the Dragonfly 40 with Jens Quorning, the owner of Quorning Boats. During that sail we had very light wind, but the boat was responsive and sped along at 8 knots of boat speed in 8 knots of wind. The helm was balanced and the sailing was easy. Jens apologized for the lack of wind, but honestly having sailed trimarans before, it’s the light wind performance that is most attractive to me. I was excited. We went back to the Sage in Grenada with a very different plan than when we arrived in Spain, we were now moving to Europe.

The plan was to sail north and haul the boat at Zimmerman Marine for some warranty repairs. Along the way, I made the final decision to “downsize” to a new Dragonfly 40, and we signed up for hull #29 and decided to put Sage up for sale at the end of the Carribean season. With the help of Spike at Rapide Yacht Group we got a good offer and moved to Spain in July of 2025 to experience the lovely culture of Valencia and eagerly await the completion of our new Dragonfly 40 Ultimate Carbon, Orizuru.