Chris White is an American multihull sailboat designer.
[1][2] White built his first trimaran, a Jim Brown designed Searunner 31, in 1973.
[1] In the late 1970s he worked with Jim Brown and Dick Newick.
[1] His first large design was the 52' trimaran, Juniper, built in southern Virginia and launched in 1981, later sailed around the world by Henk de Velde.
[1][3] In 1983 he started his design business, developing the concept of the forward cockpit or pilot house catamaran.