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Inside Out: Week commencing Monday September 22, 2003
CATAMARANS AND THEIR ESSEX ROOTS
Inside Out explores the surprising history of catamarans - "the future of sailing"
 
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Francis Prout at a marina

Here's one I made earlier...

After an idea of Roland's to lash two canoes together, the Prout brothers never looked back.

"We shot out of that creek and reached about 15 knots," explains Francis Prout. "It was as if we were on tram lines, turning was difficult because we were going so fast."

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