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January 26, 2017

Jump aboard the Gougeon 32, a fast, trailerable, retro catamaran, as Russell Brown and Alan Gurski give us the inside scoop on this cool cat.

The Gougeon 32, or G32, was designed by Meade and Jan Gougeon, best known for their WEST System epoxy. Meade and Jan set out with some very lofty engineering goals: make a fast, light, strong catamaran that can be trailered by a car. Full of innovative ideas and processes, production of the G32 ended after just 14 boats were built. Russell Brown is now taking his to the next level, stripping it down past the gel coat in order to rebuild it from the ground up and make his own solo assault on the Race to Alaska 2017.

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1992 Gougeon 32

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1992 Gougeon 32 “Pocket Rocket” originally belonging to Jan Gougeon (developer of WEST System). Deserves some more competent TLC than I can give.

This racer/camp cruiser catamaran uses water ballast to compensate for the 8’3’’ beam that allows it to fit on the special trailer (included) that is road legal without special permits.

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THE GOUGEON BROTHERS BOATS

Cold molded boat construction.

The Gougeon Brothers began experimenting with boat building while they were kids growing up near the Saginaw Bay. As young adults, they developed a novel boat construction technique based on laminating wood veneers with their proprietary epoxy formulation. Their strong, fast sailboat started winning regattas, leading other competitive sailors to commission them to build a number of high-profile racing sailboats, both monohulls and multihulls.

Let’s take a look at some of the boats the Gougeon Brothers have built over the years.

Perhaps this is the first Gougeon Brothers boat. It's the earliest one we have a photo of.

Sailing Barge

It is no exaggeration to say that the Gougeon brothers engaged in building experimental sailboats their entire lives. In the summer of 1947, Meade adjusts the (literal) sheet while younger brothers Jan and Joel look on.

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DN Iceboats

Living in Michigan, “hard-water sailing” is one way to extend the season. The narrow fuselage, rigging, reduced friction, and sailing angles of DN iceboats (designed by Arrol, Lodge, and Jarret for the Detroit News) would heavily influence all of Meade and Jan Gougeon’s boat designs.

The Gougeons’ first commercial enterprise was building DN iceboats.

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DN 1195 Photo credit: Henry Bosset

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Meade was living in Erie, PA when he built his first trimaran. He called it E1 for “Experiment number one.” He considered this 1963 multihull “a disaster” and didn’t have a lot to say about it, other than it had “too many moving parts.”

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Meade’s constructed his second experimental trimaran, Pencil , under an apartment carport in 1964. Built much too light, Pencil broke under her own weight shortly after her launched.

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Wee Three II

This was Jan’s second version of his Wee Three design (not pictured). The lee ama broke clean off of the original . In 1965, Jan built Wee Three II to be sturdier, and to meet IYRU Class-C rules. Note that she is rigged with a wingmast, much like a DN iceboat.

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Omega , a 25′ trimaran built in 1965, was the first boat the brothers designed with articulating amas. This experimental trimaran performed very well at Yachting magazine’s One-of-a-Kind Regatta in 1965. This success on the racecourse brought notoriety to the Gougeon name in multihull circles.

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Meade Gougeon designed and built Victor T, which he launched in 1969. At just 320 lbs, she earned the distinction of being the lightest Class C competitor in the 1969 Nationals in Hamilton, Ontario. There,  Victor T  took home the win against a strong field of wingmast-powered catamarans.

Back in the day, budgets were tight so Meade repurposed the sails he’d used on Omega (above).

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Launched in 1970 and pictured here in 2018, Meade Gougeon’s 35′ trimaran Adagio was the first large, all epoxy bonded and sealed wooden boat built without the use of fasteners. Meade and Jan Gougeon constructed her in just six months. She’s been sailing on the Great Lakes ever since and continues to be a serious contender in the Mackinac races.

Adagio is proof that epoxy-bonded monocoque structures can last for generations.

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Golden Dazy

Another notable cold-molded boat: the Ron Holland-designed  Golden Dazy . Launched in 1973, she won the 1975 Canada’s Cup . The success of these wood/epoxy composite boats led to a “mini-revolution” amongst builders and designers. They realized that they could build stiffer and stronger hulls with wood and epoxy than they could with fiberglass, and do so without increasing the weight. Many custom builders continue to choose wood and epoxy as their construction materials today.

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Built in 1976, Hot Flash was a cold-molded, fast, half-ton racing monohull designed by Gary Mull. The Usnis brothers, who sailed out of Detroit’s Bayview Yacht Club, commissioned the Gougeons to construct her with wood and WEST SYSTEM Epoxy. The boat was later rechristened Boomerang .

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In 1977, the Brothers built  Rogue Wave , a Dick Newick-designed trimaran, for Phil Weld to race in the 1980 OSTAR challenge. Unfortunately, a rule change meant Weld never got the opportunity. This impressive 60′ cold-molded trimaran was among the larger boats the Gougeon brothers built.

Photo credit (right): Polly Brown

Rogue Wave is christened outside Gougeon Brothers Boatworks.

The Gougeons launched the 60′ proa Slingshot  in June 1978. Commissioned by Georg and Carl Thomas,  Slingshot  competed in the 1979 speed trials in Weymouth, England, recording the second-fastest speed. Racing the ditch in Texas City, Texas in 1980, the crew posted a speed of 38 knots.

Unfortunately, Slingshot came loose from her mooring during a storm and got destroyed when the waves dashed her against the rocks. A salvaged section of her bow still hangs in the Gougeon boatshop

Slingshot’s crew included Jan Gougeon, Mike Zutek, Ron Sherry, and Olaf and Peter Harken.

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This 1979 Gougeon-designed and built wooden cruising trimaran capsized in the Atlantic in 1980 during a qualifier for the OSTAR challenge. Sailing solo, Jan Gougeon spent four long days in Flicka’s capsized hull. He had plenty of time to think about rightable trimaran designs before a passing freighter rescued him.  Flicka  had to be abandoned at sea.

Read more about Flicka’s capsize at Epoxyworks.com.

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Jim Brown designed this 27′ freshwater trimaran and longtime GBI Technical Advisor, Captain James R. Watson built her in 1979. Watson elaborates:

This boat sports an experimental wingmast constructed of 1/16″ thick aircraft birch plywood outer skin, 1/64″ thick plywood inner skin separated with 1/2″ Tricell H™ (resin impregnated paper) honeycomb. It was fitted to the boat five years after initial launching. With some reinforcing stringers, this laminate stack was lightly vacuumed while flat, then folded and placed into a form to establish an airfoil until all cured.  James R. Watson, Wood/Epoxy Longevity , Epoxyworks 17

Photo credit (left): Janet Townley

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In 1980, Jan began building  Splinter . Following his terrifying experience aboard Flicka , he designed this developed plywood trimaran to be rightable if capsized. Splinter was the second boat, after Adagio, the Brothers launched with a wingmast. Pictured (at right) in 2019, she still competes on the Saginaw Bay against other noteworthy Gougeon-built multihulls including Adagio and  Ollie.

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Named after the Gougeons’ grandmother,  Ollie  was started in 1984 using the Gougeon brother’s developed plywood technology. The design was trademarked as a Stressform™ 35 along with Stressform wingmast plans.  Ollie’ s design further advanced Jan’s ideas for self-righting multihulls.

Jan was always thinking of the next boat and had an appetite for solo sailing. After the Atlantic capsized of Flicka , every boat he designed was self-righting. Ollie (right) acing on the Saginaw Bay in 2019.

Jan Gougeon, a founder of the Gougeon Brothers at his drafting table.

Adrenalin is a Formula 40 Trimaran with articulating amas. GBI built her for Bill Piper of Ossineke, Michigan in 1987. This boat amazed the sailboat racing world by taking an extremely close second place during her first regatta: the Formula 40 Grand Prix circuit in Brest, France, in April of 1988.

A Formula 40 rule change later legislated Adrenalin  out of contention.

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The G-32 is an innovative 32’catamaran designed and built by the Gougeons in the early 1990s. These production boats feature a water-ballast system, are self-righting, and are trailerable. The masthead float doubles as a wind vane and prevents the boat from going completely upside down if capsized.

The Gougeons conceived the G-32 as an affordable cruising and racing vessel but it didn’t achieve market success in the short time that it was produced. The fourteen that they built are still racing and sailing today.

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Meade and Jan’s first powerboats were these 32′ Gougmarans launched in 2007. Based on Dick Newick-designed hulls, the brothers conceived these comfortable shallow-water cruisers for stability, low wetted surface, minimal wake, and excellent fuel efficiency.

Read more in Birth of the Gougmarans at Epoxyworks.com.

Brothers Meade and Jan Gougeon kick back and relax aboard Meade's Gougmaran.

Chris Beckwith designed the i550, an 18′ stitch-and-glue sportboat. The Gougeon Brothers built Hot Canary in 2011 and raced in the Everglades Challenge.

She is now under new ownership and has been renamed Vivacious . Read the story about how her new owners refit her for camping/cruising .

Strings may be one of the Gougeon Brothers most unusual multihulls.

Jan Gougeon’s final boat project was Strings , a 39’7′ “folding cat with a fuselage. He launched her in 2011. She has long, narrow hulls and a center cabin that rides above the water. An elaborate network of lines (aka strings ) makes this ingenious boat perfect for solo sailing.

Although Jan passed away in 2012, Strings sails on, competing in regattas on the Great Lakes.

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Elderly Care

This was the last of several boats Meade designed and built for competing in the grueling, 300-mile Everglades Challenge. An outrigger sailing canoe, Elderly Care provided accommodations for Meade to sleep at night and race during the day. His tactic worked: He place first in his class in the 2017 Everglades Challenge just five months before he passed away at age 78.

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The Gougeon Brothers’ experiments in boat design

Gougeon 32 Catamaran sailboat

The Gougeon 32 is a 32.0ft frac. sloop (rotating spar) designed by Jan Gougeon and built in fiberglass between 1990 and 1992.

14 units have been built..

The Gougeon 32 is an ultralight sailboat which is a very high performer. The fuel capacity is originally very small. There is a very short water supply range.

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Discussion in ' Multihulls ' started by rapscallion , Jul 11, 2011 .

rapscallion

rapscallion Senior Member

Really weird. But I get it. I'm so tired of being all stressed out over rising slip costs and the potential lack of slip availability, along with being at the mercy of the crane operator's schedule every spring and fall. I need people to help me raise and lower the mast every year. I have been lucky, because there have been people nice enough to help. But a boat that can be trailer launched and ready to sail in minutes???!! A fast boat that is easy to own!!! For that kind of awesome I can embrace the weirdness with a kind of fondness reserved for a new grandparent that gets to hold their grandson for the first time, and gets to hand the grandson back to the parents because grandbabys diaper needs to be changed... and grandpa isn't about to deprive the parents of the honor. I get it.. and it is a thing of beauty!!  

Plodunkgeo

Plodunkgeo Previous Member

Mr. rapscallion, It would seem that your search is defined by the performance envelope more than the utilitarian as a day sailing boat for pure pleasure. That choice would put you into the fringe of the genre if you are not able to spend large sums of money on a given project. With the G32 well out of production, are you not skating on the thin ice of a new day, rather than basing your efforts while looking to a functional solution that is more affordable? I believe you have mentioned the L7 previously and I wonder why that boat does not fit your needs from a performance, as well as price point?  
The L7 is a great boat. I would be very happy with a boat like that if I had one. Given the L7 design and the G32 design, I do believe one fits my personal needs better than the other.  

basil

basil Senior Member

What about a stretched one of these. http://www.wallerdesign.com.au/tc670.html  
That is essentially what a G32 is... but wow, the design weight seems heavy! The G32 is less than that fully loaded and on the trailer. But, yes, other than the weight, that is what I'm looking at. The other option is a Kelsall approach using KSS panels and building a POD cat with AMAs that slide from a 8'6" to about 12'. Derek has yet to build one of his KISSKATS but the idea of building a racer intrigued him. I think a POD cat similar to the KD800 would fit what I'm thinking rather nicely. http://www.ikarus342000.com/KD800page.htm But, if you are going to the trouble of adding the complexity of a variable beam in the form of a folding/sliding system are you better off with a catamaran or a trimaran in this size range? Which one of the two would give you a better performance/ease of use/interior space combination? That's a tough question.. It's like asking how long is a piece of string. Traditionally, trimarans have dominated this market segment, and with good reason. In the 22' to 30' size range I believe a trimaran COULD give you more useful space given an equal level of performance when compared to a catamaran... but then again doesn't the 8.5 meter box rule class seem to prefer catamarans? At the end of the day it really comes down to this: I'm looking for a clever design that can be truly trailer sailed... meaning the boat can be launched from a trailer and sailing by 1 person in minutes... I would like the boat to be "fast" and have enough accommodation for 2 for a weekend of spartan camping. "Fast" and "accommodation" are the two nebulous criteria here, A quick setup and launch is the part of the design that can't be compromised. I think the G32 fits, the L7 probably fits (I have never seen someone set up and launch one, so I don't know exactly what is involved) the KD 800 approach fits, heck even the DC3 and seaclipper 24 have a shot as long as the rig is engineered to raise and lower quickly and easily. Although, I believe I would be happier with the performance of the L7 vs. the seaclipper. Nevertheless, from a cost benefit perspective, the DC3 and seaclipper 24 are notable designs. And a 26' to 28' Jarcat with water ballast would most likely fit the criteria, but at that point a low budget L7 type trimaran may start to make more sense from a performance/dollar spent perspective, especially of the Waller weighs 800 to 1000 lbs more than the L7 would. But, if the waller was built to be light, by default it would be a strong contender. My criteria may seem murky but they really aren't. The selection criteria do not contain a discrete answer. It is more like a series of differential equations that can be solved in terms of one another to yield a solution set instead of a single answer. Cost and grief of ownership must be minimized. The G32 wins there... by light years. The L7 is most likely another very strong contender along with a light waller/jarcat. Fast! The L7 and G32 win there too. Accommodation.. waller/jarcat are strong, the L7 and g32 pass as well in my opinion. Sticker price. Based on what I know all of the designs are within budget, although I don't have a feel for how much building a kelsall would cost.  

jamez

jamez Senior Member

Have you checked out the forthcoming waters 22? http://www.smalltridesign.com/W22/W22-Trimaran-Design-Approach.html Similar build idea to the L7, but you build your own pans. Mike infers that it should be possible to use an L7 style sliding I beam if desired.  

BPGougeon

BPGougeon Junior Member

Hi Rapscallion, I know of an older gentleman (almost eighty) in southeastern Michigan who has a G32, and last I heard was entertaining the idea of selling it. If you're serious I'd be happy to track him down for you. Ben Gougeon  
BPGougeon! I sent you a PM with my contact info.  

Steve W

Steve W Senior Member

Raps, Go for it, looks like an opportunity to me. Good luck. Steve.  

redreuben

redreuben redreuben

Raps, Check this out, also a 7m version. http://www.surteesmultihulls.com/9m-folding-catamaran Cheers, RR  

themanshed

themanshed Senior Member

The Reynolds 33 Catamaran R33 has a really slick reefing boom rig.  
themanshed said: ↑ The Reynolds 33 Catamaran R33 has a really slick reefing boom rig. Click to expand...
Alas, no G32 available at this time. What a great boat!  
Well, I was lucky enough find a G-32 owner willing to part with the boat at a price I could afford! And if everything goes according to plan I hope to pick her up in the next week or two... I'm buying Janet C, Meade Gougeon's G32! Talk about buying a boat with Provenance! Meade mentioned there are a couple of things that have to be attended to before racing her seriously, and that he would coach me through the process.... How cool is that!!! I have always been a huge fan of the Gougeon brothers.... the Mad scientist sailors from the midwest who can build the fastest and most beautiful wood boats in the world... just to put things into perspective... Adagio, the 35' trimaran Meade and jan built in 1969, has a PHRF rating of -66!! Not bad for an old wood boat! Wood is still very fast if built correctly..  
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Hey Raps, Congrats on acquiring such a classic beauty. Enjoy, big time! Happy sailing! Cheers, Hielan  

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G-32 catamaran on the cover of Epoxyworks 46, Spring 2018

Russell Brown’s G-32 catamaran on the cover of Epoxyworks 46, Spring 2018

The work of the Gougeon brothers has been like a guiding light to me starting when I was a young teenager. It wasn’t just the methods and skills they developed that inspired me (and led to my career in boatbuilding), it was the “outside the box” thinking about boat design they employed. While Meade Gougeon led the effort to develop and teach epoxy skills and building methods, it was his brother Jan who had the courage to design, build, develop, and race boats that were very unusual and often counter-intuitive, yet very successful. Jan’s G-32 catamaran is an example of his genius.

How do I know about this boat? I own one. After being intrigued with the G-32 for 20 some years, I bought one. I overhauled and built a new rig for the boat and then raced it in the 2017 Race to Alaska. The R2AK is a 750-mile race from Port Townsend, WA to Ketchikan, Alaska. The race was somewhat trying for me because I had spent so little time sailing the boat before the start and had some issues with the new rig, but I still managed to keep the boat on its feet and knock almost 4 days off of the single-handed record.

I have had a lot more experience on the boat since the race (including sailing the boat back from Alaska with my wife, Ashlyn). I have grown to have much respect and affection for it.

What is so different about the G-32 catamaran? It is a road legal (8 1/2′ wide), 32′ long trailerable catamaran. It’s the same width as a Hobie 16, yet twice as long. It trades initial stability for efficiency. The boat is very aerodynamic and has incredibly slender hulls, so the tiny rig pushes the boat at competitive speeds.

G-32 catamaran

Looking down the hulls of Russell Brown’s G-32 catamaran.

The boat is tippy, yes, but it has a very effective water ballast system which is filled and emptied with control lines on each side of the cockpit. Around-the-boom reefing for the mainsail and a furling jib make controlling power very easy and the boat is quite capable in wild weather.

The G-32 is self-righting. If capsized, a masthead float that doubles as a wind vane keeps the boat from going upside-down, and the boat is righted by canting the rig with the running backstays. There is some rigging and work involved, but it takes less than five minutes to right and only one’s ankles get wet.

Inside the redesigned masthead float of Brown's G-32 catamaran

The masthead float was redesigned to be a bit smaller and more aerodynamic than the stock G-32 float. The float was built with S-glass and epoxy because a large radar reflector would be mounted inside. The fiberglass is transparent to radar as opposed to carbon fiber.

G-32 catamaran masthead float

In total, the new masthead float weighed 4.5 lbs. which is approximately 2.5 lbs. less than the original.

The launching, retrieval, set-up, and break-down of this boat are in a class to themselves. The mast raises and lowers in literally just a few minutes using the boom as a jin pole. The entire set-up and launching can take as little as 15 minutes and a 12-year-old could do the work involved.

The feature of this boat that I marvel at the most: It is dry. There are conditions when a lick of spray may come aboard, but usually, only a few droplets ever make it into the cockpit. The dryness is obviously not due to freeboard or flare, so I attribute it to extremely fine entries and a designer who had the courage to try something really different.

Gougeon Brothers, Inc. produced 14 of these innovative boats in the 1990’s. They were molded in foam, fiberglass, and a predecessor of Gougeon’s PRO-SET Epoxy, a very popular laminating epoxy currently used in building all types of composite structures.

The G-32 was meant to be an affordable cruising and racing boat, but it didn’t achieve large market success in the short time that it was produced. The boat had strong fans, myself included, and the sailing performance of the boat is remarkable. I think the main reason the boat wasn’t more successful was that the boat wasn’t well understood.

G-32 catamaran at dock

The boom is used as a jin pole to raise and lower the mast.

Re-building my G-32 showed me time and time again that every feature of this boat was done with purpose. Many of the features were integrated with one another so there weren’t many things that could be changed without affecting something else.

I did a fairly major overhaul of my boat. Some of what I did was related to it being an older production boat and some was related to wanting to strengthen and outfit the boat for the type of sailing I like to do. Much of the work is documented at Gougeon32.blogspot.com .

I built a new rig for the boat, which added a bit more power (the new rig is taller, but still shorter than the boat is long), and the new mast is a bit lighter and more aerodynamic. It’s also stiffer which allows flying light air sails from the masthead without excessive mast bend.

Some complexity was added with the addition of the new rig, some was taken away as well (such as the masthead running backstays and forward diamond stay). Is the boat faster with the new rig? I don’t know. I do know that the boat can take a terrible thrashing and come out smiling.

Crossing the straights of Juan de Fuca recently while returning from a race, I had to sail upwind in gale conditions. With the jib rolled in and the mainsail heavily reefed (which can be done in less than a minute) the boat becomes quite controllable and stable. It will tack easily, point very high, make respectable speed, and stay very dry. The boat will heave-to by merely easing the main sheet. The jib can be rolled out in seconds to increase power in the lulls. To say that this was an easy crossing would be stretching the truth, but I made it across with daylight to spare and no damage.

Re-building my boat (sail number 10) was fun and I have learned a huge amount from the process. Building parts has been the most fun and I’m hoping to document some of these parts in future articles of Epoxyworks.

G-32 catamaran rudders

New rudders were built in two halves in CNC machined female molds. They were constructed using many layers of carbon fiber for the skins and a foam core with a large wooden shear web in the fattest part of the foil. They are a bit more modern (higher aspect) than the stock rudders and just over half the weight of the originals.

G-32 catamaran undergoing refinishing

The G-32 gelcoat has been chipped off, the low areas filled and then faired with long boards. The whole boat was coated with 105/207.

G-32 catamaran sanded

The G-32 catamaran was lightly sanded before being painted.

Featured image (top)—Russell Brown’s G-32 catamaran, G-Wiz!, fully refurbished and underway.

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  3. Gougeon 32 Refit in 2015

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  4. Gougeon 32 Catamaran, Essex, Vermont, sailboat for sale from Sailing

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  5. Part 2- Gougeon 32 Catamaran 1991 Promo

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  1. Gougeon 32

    In a review Richard Sherwood described the design, "the Gougeon 32 is a big, fast, stable catamaran that can be sailed by one or two and will sleep two adults and two children. In addition, you can camp out in the cockpit. Six hundred pounds of water ballast may be placed in each hull for stability, but may be drained for trailering.

  2. VIDEO: Gougeon 32

    The Gougeon 32, or G32, was designed by Meade and Jan Gougeon, best known for their WEST System epoxy. Meade and Jan set out with some very lofty engineering goals: make a fast, light, strong catamaran that can be trailered by a car. Full of innovative ideas and processes, production of the G32 ended after just 14 boats were built.

  3. GOUGEON 32

    Gougeon 32 Catamaran 1991 Promo video Parts 1 and 2. ©1991 Gougeon Bros Inc. Calculations Help. SA/Disp.: A sail area/displacement ratio below 16 would be considered under powered; 16 to 20 would indicate reasonably good performance; above 20 suggests relatively high performance. SA/D = SA (ft²) ÷ [Disp (lbs) / 64]^.666 ...

  4. 1992 Gougeon 32

    1992 Gougeon 32 "Pocket Rocket" originally belonging to Jan Gougeon (developer of WEST System). Deserves some more competent TLC than I can give. This racer/camp cruiser catamaran uses water ballast to compensate for the 8'3'' beam that allows it to fit on the special trailer (included) that is road legal without special permits.

  5. THE GOUGEON BROTHERS BOATS • Gougeon Brothers, Inc

    The Gougeon Brothers began experimenting with boat building while they were kids growing up near the Saginaw Bay. As young adults, they developed a novel boat construction technique based on laminating wood veneers with their proprietary epoxy formulation. ... G-32. The G-32 is an innovative 32'catamaran designed and built by the Gougeons in ...

  6. A fascinating inside look at a marine design

    Incognito is a composite catamaran that was fabricated by Gougeon Manufacturing in 1990. Russell Brown of Port Townsend, WA raced the 28-year-old vessel, a G32, single-handedly in the grueling R2AK (Race to Alaska). In the qualifying leg from Port Townsend WA to Victoria, BC he finished 40 minutes ahead of the rest of the fleet.

  7. Gougeon 32 Catamaran, Essex, Vermont, sailboat for sale from Sailing

    The G32 was designed and built in the 1990s by the legendary Gougeon Brothers (of West System Epoxy fame) to become a new racing class of towable high performance cats with some very unusual design goals: A 32 ft catamaran that can be towed with a mid-size car or small SUV. That can go from trailer to sailing in 10 minutes.

  8. Gougeon 32

    Gougeon 32 The Gougeon 32 is a 32.0ft frac. sloop (rotating spar) designed by Jan Gougeon and built in fiberglass between 1990 and 1992. 14 units have been built. The Gougeon 32 is an ultralight sailboat which is a very high performer. ... Catamaran twin daggerboard

  9. Meade Gougeon Biography

    When Meade Gougeon arrived in Stamford, Connecticut at 6:30 A.M. in 1963 for the NAMSA championships, he was at the dawn of man really learning how to make a multihull go fast. The 'hot' multihulls then were the C Class catamarans. The only other real competitor was the D Class -- 32 feet long with 500 square feet of sail area.

  10. Gougeon 32

    The Gougeon 32 is an American trailerable catamaran that was designed by Jan Gougeon and first built in 1990.

  11. Pioneers of Speed

    Over the years an impressive number of fast boats emerged from the Gougeon Brothers boat shop including 14 production/custom water ballasted, trailerable, catamarans—the Gougeon 32 (G32). I say the G32s were production/custom boats because they are mostly the same, but like all things Gougeon, each build sparked ideas and innovations that ...

  12. Birth of the Gougmarans

    Based on our earlier success with the Gougeon 32 sailing catamaran, we quickly decided on a two-hulled catamaran configuration of about 32′ length with a trailering capable width. The project got a time-saving boost when we discovered that some ideal hulls that could fit our needs already existed. Famed multihull designer Dick Newick had ...

  13. Gougeon 32 Refit in 2015

    Russell Brown works on a Gougeon 32 catamaran w/ refit notes & pictures. G32 How-to boat building & epoxy fiberglass carbon fiber composites. ... Gougeon 32 Refit in 2015 Russell Brown notes on his refit of a Gougeon 32 trailerable catamaran, featuring photos, repairs, and changes. Tuesday, March 21, 2023. 2022 R2AK pedal drive systems. I haven ...

  14. Gougeon 32 Refit in 2015: Adventures and a misadventure

    Gougeon 32 Refit in 2015 Russell Brown notes on his refit of a Gougeon 32 trailerable catamaran, featuring photos, repairs, and changes. Thursday, November 10, 2016. Adventures and a misadventure Well, I had a great weekend of sailing and one very close call.

  15. Gougeon 32 catamaran

    Gougeon 32 catamaran. Discussion in 'Multihulls' started by rapscallion, Jul 11, 2011. Page 2 of 3 < Prev 1 2 3 Next > Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 504 Likes: 15, Points: 18, Legacy Rep: 132 ... Well, I was lucky enough find a G-32 owner willing to part with the boat at a price I could afford! And if everything goes according to plan I hope to pick ...

  16. G-Wiz!

    Gougeon Brothers, Inc. produced 14 of these innovative boats in the 1990's. They were molded in foam, fiberglass, and a predecessor of Gougeon's PRO-SET Epoxy, a very popular laminating epoxy currently used in building all types of composite structures. The G-32 was meant to be an affordable cruising and racing boat, but it didn't achieve ...

  17. Gougeon 32 catamaran?.....

    Does anyone have or know where i can get schematics, drawings, detailed pics anything of the G32? I have an improbable dream of building one. I rember reading somewhere that they have a water ballast

  18. Gougeon 32 Refit in 2015: 2016

    Gougeon 32 Refit in 2015 Russell Brown notes on his refit of a Gougeon 32 trailerable catamaran, featuring photos, repairs, and changes. Thursday, November 10, 2016. Adventures and a misadventure. Well, I had a great weekend of sailing and one very close call.

  19. Boat Bits: I really love this cat...

    Ever since the Gougeon brothers designed and built their Gougeon 32 catamaran I've been somewhat uninspired by most of the other cats being designed these days. Of course, there was the notable exception of Bob Oram's Slim cats (a maxi-Gougeon 32 more or less) but, as Bob has retired to go off cruising and shut down his design office, I'm just ...

  20. Gougeon 32 Refit in 2015: 2018

    Gougeon 32 Refit in 2015 Russell Brown notes on his refit of a Gougeon 32 trailerable catamaran, featuring photos, repairs, and changes. Wednesday, August 15, 2018. Pedal drives on 2018 R2AK boats. Here are photos of some pedal drive units that caught my eye in the 2018 R2AK.

  21. Part 1- Gougeon 32 Catamaran 1991 Promo

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  22. Gougeon Multihulls

    This facebook group is dedicated to multihull sailboats designed and built by the Gougeon Brothers. Any information on the boats is quite welcome. Please join, it's an open group.