In this sample audio clip, Jim Brown speaks to multihull sailor and professional boatbuilder Roger Hatfield. Roger is the owner Gold Coast Yachts, which operates on St. Croix, in the US Virgin Islands.

In this short audio, Roger shares how a few multihulls were literally flipped over (several times, in fact) when Hurricane Hugo hit the island.

In the full audio (from which this clip is excerpted) Roger and Jim discuss other topics, including:

— How Roger got into professional mulithull construction

— How cruising around the Caribbean has changed (and is the same) over the past quarter century

— What type of wood is the BEST (in Roger’s opinion) for use in boatbuilding

— Some sailing features of the large cruising charter catamarans built by Gold Coast Yachts

— What it’s like to operate a boat building company today

— The state of multihull construction today in the midst of this “new” economy

— Some great stories about how multihulls sail and handle in relation to monohulls

Audio Clip: Excerpt from Jim Brown’s Interview with Roger Hatfield