Editing Multihull (section)

==Multihull history ==
{{Main|Outrigger boat|Catamaran}}
[[File:Priests traveling across kealakekua bay for first contact rituals.jpg|thumb|right|A Polynesian catamaran]]
[[Single-outrigger boat]]s, double-canoes ([[catamaran]]s), and double-outrigger boats ([[trimaran]]s) of the [[Austronesian peoples]] are the direct antecedents of modern multihull vessels. They were developed during the [[Austronesian Expansion]] (c. 3000 to 1500 BC) which allowed Austronesians to colonize [[maritime Southeast Asia]], [[Micronesia]], [[Island Melanesia]], [[Madagascar]], and [[Polynesia]]. These Austronesian vessels are still widely used today by traditional fishermen in Austronesian regions in maritime Southeast Asia, [[Oceania]] and Madagascar; as well as areas they were introduced to by Austronesians in ancient times like in the [[East Africa]]n coast and in [[South Asia]].<ref name="Mahdi1999">{{cite book|author=Mahdi, Waruno|title=Archaeology and Language III: Artefacts languages, and texts|publisher=Routledge|year=1999|isbn=0415100542|editor=Blench, Roger|series=One World Archaeology|volume=34|pages=144–179|chapter=The Dispersal of Austronesian boat forms in the Indian Ocean|editor2=Spriggs, Matthew}}{{dead link|date=February 2020}}</ref><ref name="Doran1981">{{cite book|last1=Doran|first1=Edwin B.|title=Wangka: Austronesian Canoe Origins|date=1981|publisher=Texas A&M University Press|isbn=9780890961070}}</ref><ref name="Beheim">{{cite journal|last1=Beheim|first1=B. A.|last2=Bell|first2=A. V.|date=23 February 2011|title=Inheritance, ecology and the evolution of the canoes of east Oceania|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences|volume=278|issue=1721|pages=3089–3095|doi=10.1098/rspb.2011.0060|pmc=3158936|pmid=21345865}}</ref><ref name="Hornell1932">{{cite journal|last1=Hornell|first1=James|date=1932|title=Was the Double-Outrigger Known in Polynesia and Micronesia? A Critical Study|journal=The Journal of the Polynesian Society|volume=41|issue=2 (162)|pages=131–143}}</ref><ref name="Doran1974">{{cite journal|last1=Doran|first1=Edwin Jr.|date=1974|title=Outrigger Ages|url=http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document//Volume_83_1974/Volume_83%2C_No._2/Outrigger_ages%2C_by_Edwin_Doran_Jnr.%2C_p_130-140/p1|journal=The Journal of the Polynesian Society|volume=83|issue=2|pages=130–140|access-date=2021-02-02|archive-date=2020-01-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200118071139/http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document/Volume_83_1974/Volume_83,_No._2/Outrigger_ages,_by_Edwin_Doran_Jnr.,_p_130-140/p1|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Greek sources also describe large third-century BC catamarans, one built under the supervision of [[Archimedes]], the ''[[Syracusia]]'',<ref name="Casson">{{cite book|last=Casson|first=Lionel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sDpMh0gK2OUC|title=Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World|publisher=JHU Press|year=1971|isbn=9780801851308|access-date=22 May 2011}}</ref> and another reportedly built by [[Ptolemy IV Philopator]] of [[Ptolemaic Egypt|Egypt]], the ''[[Tessarakonteres]]''.<ref name="athenaeus">{{cite book|author=Athenaeus|title=The Deipnosophists|publisher=[[Henry G. Bohn]]|year=1854|volume=I|pages=324–325|translator=C. D. Yonge|chapter=V:37|author-link=Athenaeus|translator-link=C. D. Yonge|chapter-url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/Literature/Literature-idx?type=turn&entity=Literature.AthV1.p0330&id=Literature.AthV1&isize=L&q1=Callixenus&pview=hide|access-date=2021-02-02|archive-date=2021-05-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210517103935/https://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/Literature/Literature-idx?type=turn&entity=Literature.AthV1.p0330&id=Literature.AthV1&isize=L&q1=Callixenus&pview=hide|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="athenaeus2">{{cite book|author=Athenaeus|title=The Deipnosophists|pages=203–204|translator=C. D. Yonge|chapter=V:37|chapter-url=http://www.attalus.org/old/athenaeus5b.html|access-date=2021-02-02|archive-date=2021-11-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211101150642/http://www.attalus.org/old/athenaeus5b.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Modern developers ===
Modern pioneers of multihull design include [[James Wharram]] (UK), [[Derek Kelsall]] (UK), [[Catalac catamarans|Tom Lack]] (UK), [[Lock Crowther]] (Aust), Hedly Nicol (Aust), Malcolm Tennant (NZ), Jim Brown (USA), [[Arthur Piver]] (USA), [[Chris White (multihull designer)|Chris White]] (US), [[Farrier Marine|Ian Farrier]] (NZ), LOMOcean (NZ), Darren Newton (UK), Jens Quorning (DK) and [[Richard Cooper Newick|Dick Newick]] (USA).