As to the early crossing by a trimaran, followers of this thread might be even more interested in the voyage of the Kaimaloa by Eric de Bisschop.  With a friend, he built a double canoe in Honolulu, rigged it as a junk and sailed it to France by way of Good Hope between March 1937 and May 1938 - a lot farther than an Altlantic crossing!  There used to be a copy of the book about this voyage in the Junk Rig Association library, but I fear it vanished at the same time as the others.

Anonymous wrote:Eric, I have just heard of a junk rigged French trimaran called Ananda which crossed the Atlantic in 1946 - a very early crossing by a trimaran, but was it also the earliest Atlantic crossing by a modern junk rig?  We know of course that the large junk Keying crossed the Atlantic in 1848 or so.

I have tried an online search for the boat and skipper but even though it must have been à pioneering voyage, there is very little online.  There was a book called Au péril de la mer : Du yoga à Jésus-Christ. But with such a title it seems more like a religious book. still, I have ordered a copy.  In the meantime, I post below an image of the book’s cover, and it is indeed a junk rigged trimaran

Bonsoir

The only thing I could find, but the book that seems to be more relgious than anutical is a reference about "oldies" multihuls.

http://www.goldenoldies.biz/gomquesontilsdevenus.htm

Anonymous wrote:

Bonjour

I may already confirm that Pete Hill on Shanti crossed the Northern Atlantic from Plymouth to Newport (RI) single handed and nonstop during the 2006 Jester Challenge.

Eric

Eric, I have just heard of a junk rigged French trimaran called Ananda which crossed the Atlantic in 1946 - a very early crossing by a trimaran, but was it also the earliest Atlantic crossing by a modern junk rig?  We know of course that the large junk Keying crossed the Atlantic in 1848 or so.

I have tried an online search for the boat and skipper but even though it must have been à pioneering voyage, there is very little online.  There was a book called Au péril de la mer : Du yoga à Jésus-Christ. But with such a title it seems more like a religious book. still, I have ordered a copy.  In the meantime, I post below an image of the book’s cover, and it is indeed a junk rigged trimaran

Here is my preliminary reply to the question about small JRs crossing the Atlantic, but I am far from being the best placed to answer, so please feel free to add more info.

A great question - is Wave Rover going to be the smallest junk rig to cross the Atlantic?  It may be a close thing.  Pete Hill sailed a Kingfisher 22 (or 20+) across the Atlantic - sailboat data says those are 6.58 metres. Is Wave Rover 650 actually 6.50 metres?

I don’t know for sure but I imagine Pete’s Jester Challenge was non-stop.

Hans Schaeuble brought a Hunter Liberty across the Atlantic and much further.  Apparently 22’ or 6.8 metres.  Roger Taylor sailed his Corribee MingMing most of the way across the Atlantic, then turned for home - a fantastic voyage in a 6.3m boat - but didn’t touch on each coast.

So it’s a great question and may depend on definitions (are we to use LOA as the decider, or displacement?  I doubt we could find out the actual displacement of all the small transatlantic JR sailboats ). And maybe there are other boats I don’t know of, as I’m only in the JR community a few years.  I’ll make some enquiries, starting with Pete whom I’ve copied in this email.