title: Toria (trimaran)
text: # Toria (trimaran)
  
  Toria was a trimaran sailboat designed by Derek Kelsall and launched in 1966. It was named after Kelsall's daughter.
  
  ## Achievements
  
  In 1966 Toria won the first RWYC Two-Handed Round Britain Race. It also won fifth place in the solo Atlantic race.
  
  ## Destruction
  
  In 1976 Toria caught fire during the solo Atlantic race.
  
  ## Legacy
  
  Toria was the first design by Kelsall, the first foam sandwich constructed trimaran in the world, and is directly credited with igniting French interest in multihull sailing.
  
     I believe it is fair to say that [Toria] set the style for the racing trimarans. She sailed on two hulls, minimum weight foam sandwich, long full buoyant floats with full transom, curved beam and with one hull flying even at rest. Toria's weakness was her rig, which we put right on sister ship Trifle - same hulls, 20% wider, full battened mainsail, rotating mast and 7/8ths genoa.
  
  Toria led directly to the design of Trifle.
  
  