[PCW] Malcolm Tennant, a tribute

[Paul Hotz]

In the summer of 2000 I went to New Zealand to see Malcolm Tennant  
after reading in the PassageMaker magazine an article on the ?Erebus?,  
a power catamaran designed by Malcolm Tennant.  The result of that  
trip was that I built the "PH8", an aluminum sistership of the ?New  
Yorker?, probably one of the few, if not only aluminum cats designed  
by Malcolm Tennant and his friend Alan Walker.

Malcolm really believed in the efficiency of his power catamarans, a  
goal he relentlessly pursued.   The PH8 fully met my expectations and  
more and is now a tribute to his design.

The catamaran community has lost one of its foremost, uncompromising  
designers.

We?ll miss you, Malcolm.

Paul Hotz
Tennant power catamaran ?PH8?
Lago Maggiore, Italy, waiting to be trucked to the seaside