Mavericks & Multihulls - Trailer
In the 1950s and ‘60s, a group of counter cultural adventurers changed sailing forever.
They re imagined centuries-old Polynesian sailing craft with fresh designs and modern materials and without meaning to, radically upended the sailing establishment. And they had the wildest time doing it.
So much of what sailing looks like today can be traced to what these mavericks were doing with the Multihulls they designed and built in their garages and back yards. Even hydrofoils that scream across the seas at 50+ knots owe a nod to these characters and their accomplishments.
Sailor, boat designer and author Jim Brown was right in the middle of all the action, often recording it on film and in narrative form. Even today in his early 90s he can recount in vivid detail many of the key events and what it all meant.
It’s a story full of history, tragedy, comedy, discovery and adventure. It’s a story that will soon be lost if we don’t tell it.
Friend of Jim is a group of sailors, outdoors people, and friends and admirers of Jim Brown who are producing this movie and we need your help to finish it.
Decades of archival footage, interviews, and photography have been collected and organized. With the help of award-winning filmmakers Michael Frierson and Kevin Wells, instructors at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, we are well into the production. But we have a good bit more to do — travel for interviews with subjects, post-production, editing, licensing needed footage and marketing (we aim to screen this movie in festivals around the world).
This is the greatest sailing story never told. You can help us tell it.
Gofundme: https://gofund.me/b71b498b