Original (catamaran)

Original was a catamaran built by Englishman Mayflower Crisp in Rangoon, Burma in the early 19th century.

{{cquote|Being taught by experience in the brig Bucephalus, which had a great rise of floor, that the form of the floor did not govern velocity, I built an experimental schooner called the "Original," on the double canoe or fallen floor principle, length 45 feet, breadth 9 feet, depth forward 5 feet, after 6 feet, to sail 3 feet by the stern. She proved to be a fast sailing fine sea boat; she traded during the S. W. monsoon between Rangoon and Tenasserim Provinces for several years.|author=Mayflower Crisp{{cite book|author=B. R. Pearn|title=A History of Rangoon|publisher=Corporation of Rangoon|year=1938|page=136}}{{cite book|author=M. F. Crisp|title=A treatise on marine architecture, elucidating the theory of the resistance of water : illustrating the form, or model best calculated to unite velocity, buoyancy, stability, strength, etc., in the same vessel : and finally, adducing the theory of the art of shipbuilding.|location=Maulmein|publisher=American Baptist mission press|year=1849|page=94|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433008070769;view=1up;seq=7}}}}