After creating a successful and innovative subsea pipeline company, John Lincoln needed something
new to keep him busy, so he decided to pursue another dream he'd always had-to design a catamaran
motor sailor.
Borneo, Indonesia would be the place. He had many employees there, spent his downtime in the
area, could build for a fraction of the cost as elsewhere, and had connections to friendly firms that were
good at constructing steel barges. The reader will follow Lincoln and his son as they do a few sketches
and get a quote. Working part time on it when they had few other obligations, it took seven years to
complete, and with the latest in marine navigation systems, they sailed to Singapore over two weeks.
Once there, the catamaran was loaded on a freighter and transported over five months to Fort
Lauderdale, Florida, where it shocked the world.
After her construction and travels, her ups and downs, her mechanical struggles, learn her fate as
she faces her fiercest obstacle in Story of Borneo Princess and Hurricane Irma.
About the author
John Lincoln was a keen scuba diver and spear fisherman. He obtained a degree in Ocean Engineering
in 1974 and worked for other companies in Nova Scotia, Louisiana, Texas, and Australia as a designer
and manager of offshore oil and gas and steam power plant facilities. Lincoln started his own businesses
in 1994: Lincoln Consulting and OES (Ocean Engineering Systems.) OES through innovation became
the world's largest and most prolific subsea pipeline trenching company http: //www.oes.net.au/. In 2007,
OES expanded into alternate energy systems for automobiles and in 2009, the company started
designing and building innovative catamaran motor sailing vessels.
