Running Cloud was designed and built by Richard (Dick) Flint in Santa Barbara in 1972 at the old stagecoach station site. It was the first Foam core multihull built in the USA. Moxie was styled after Running Cloud afte Dick Newick and Phil Weld looked at it. They wanted a boat like Running cloud for the Ostar without Running Clouds accommodations. Dick sailed it to Hawaii in about 77/78 and it was an escort boat for one of the inter island canoe races at one point. Dick then began building houses on the island and lost interest in the boat. I bought it from him Sept 25th 1980 after it had been through a hurricane on the big island, Kona. Peter Cimino of Inflight and I hauled in out in the lava fields at Hanakahou and I sailed for Florida with it in December with Chuck Brayton and Ellen Ercicovich. Dick died in 2005 while I was in Phuket racing in the Kings cup but he neve was on the boat again after he sold it and his son has never seen it. Dick designed 4 boats. Running Cloud was suppose to be his last but Micheal Leal talked him in to designing Galatea, a 40 footer you will find in Redwood City today. It was built in the jungle in Hawaii.
Running Clud is still competitive after 50 years with any cruising multihull. It was second in the Kalua Cup when Pat Dushies stiletto beat it but was still several hours ahead of the rest of the fleet. After that they didn't allow multihulls anymore. It won the first ARC race and held the record for that crossing for 10 years. I did not race it again until the Kings Cup in Asia which we won in 2006 and 2007 in the biggest most serious race in Asia. One of the best regattas in the world for any cruiser or racer to be in. I also raced for two seasons in all of the other races in the area from Langkawi and Singapore. I returned to the US going around south Africa in 2008-2009 and raced in Antigua race week 2009 and won that with a primary crew Of David Bennet and Tes Winkler and a few help we picked up day by day. I sailed on back to Virginia where I did another major haul out on the boat while I was treated for Prostate cancer.
In 2012 a friend in California was diagnosed with cancer and needed me to bring his boat, Starship, back from Mexico and help him prepare his house for the winter. At the Same Time we rescued Peter Ciminos Boat, In Flight, off of a beach in Encinada where it had been abandon for 8 years after Peter sold it. Long story there as we found it with a google earth search. It is now ready to go back in the water in Santa Cruz where it was built.
In 2013 I finally got back to RC in Delta, Virgina and took it down to Beaufort, NC and started making plans to sail to Europe again. In 2014 I landed in Cork Ireland or actually Crosshaven at the oldest Royal Yacht club in the world with Rich Faber whom I had sailed with back in the 70's and enjoyed the summer sailing with the locals while I put a real engine and drive system in Running Cloud. For the first time it could actually motor over 4.5 knots. Not that that is usually needed. Then it was Scotland, Caledonia canal, east coast of England, Amsterdam, up the Rhine across the alps in the MDK and down the Danube. Right now the boat is in Varna Bulgaria waiting for Europe to allow Americans to re enter the continent.
