I saw a couple of weeks back that Matthew had some good pics of building a board for a big cat. Find at http://cadanoche.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=15084
Will see if I can cad
ge some for the foils chapter of the new Construction Manual.
I saw a couple of weeks back that Matthew had some good pics of building a board for a big cat. Find at http://cadanoche.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=15084
Will see if I can cad
ge some for the foils chapter of the new Construction Manual.
I finally grabbed pics of Steve’s 36′ Charterboat-in-a-Box in Bellingham. See the socket in the far hull. It will fit into a container for shipping overseas.
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And the beam itself. See the mast ball, receway brackets and jib track.
It looks like I will be on ProBoat radio again tomorrow morning. The topic will be my attempt to use boatbuilding technologies on land buildings. Turns out the Codes are apparently intended to keep anything new and different from even starting, or a
t least starting easily. See
The Lunar Lander Project
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 @ 11:30 a.m. EASTERN
“Multihull designer Kurt Hughes (Seattle, Washington) joins us to share lessons learned from his “Lunar Lander” project. “The mission,” he says, “is to build a line of habitable space landers providing creature comforts with low impact on the land and high amazement factor.”
Inside the lander, there is open space, with external modules for bath, galley, breakfast nook and storage. On top is a clear geodesic dome with queen size berth under it. The dome is suspended by carbon fiber tensors so the light can stream in down all around the berth.
Hughes will share the rest of the details of this project with us, and we’ll also discuss what the building industry might have to learn from boatbuilders, and the ways in which this project has become an education for Hughes.”
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I finally downloaded the pictures of Alex’s beautiful 45′ KHSD cruising cat being built in Bellingham. It will have a carbon Aeroesque mast. Foam/glass boat.
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Saw an unusual solar powered catamaran last month in Monaco. It had nice narrow, snakey wave-piercing bows but the transom was chopped off and at maximum hull beam. I guessed and later read that it would not do more than 14 knots. That kind of transom is all wrong for low speed displacement hulls. I guessed it was designed by a bored, rich illiterate who had seen some magazines. I found out later
was done by Craig Loomes who should know better. Now I'm really confused. It did make it around the world. What if it had been done right?
Its pretty powerful.
http://www.onlineconversion.com/
Multihulls World (Multicoques) put together a very snappy new ad for the Cruising issue. If that is your picture, let me know.
There are about a dozen spare masts at the backlot of CSR. Most are about 60′ long and with sections for 40′ + boats. Contact me or Tim about getting one.
Most are off of monos so will need some customizing. They will not know the section properties of a particular mast, but I can measure any one and get a pretty good idea what that would be. http://csrmarine.com/
Tim cell 206-617-2001. Remind him that you are my customer.
I visited CSR boatyard this week. Chaak is still there waiting for its mast to be put on. Chaak was the third boat I did. Actually I did just the amas and the beams. Main hull revise came later. They did a trip to Hawaii and back by way of Alaska a few years ago. Tim remembers noticing how the boat’s shadow would leave the water every few seconds. Was airborne much of the time. Amas are CM.
I recall it was built in ’86 or ’87. See also http://www.multihulldesigns.com/designs_other/sp_chaak.htm Those gold ducks on the side are Duck Dodge wins.
Stitched up like the zombie but back at it today. The books and study plans have all gone out. Am chipping away on the emails now.