Its going to kind of be triage here for a few weeks. I have about a week of epoxyable weather to fabricate the Lunar Lander parts. They all become so big so fast that they are all outdoors. I know I tell builders not to do that, but there it is.
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st week of October I will be at IBEX catching up with builders and vendors. About mid month the curtain of cold rain hits and stays until April. So I will be mixing epoxy as much as I can until then. When the rains hit I can finish everbody’s design projects.
I found a couple of nice videos online of KHSD multis. Not the blow-you-mind kind like Simmo does, but nice.
First, the Adventure Cat on a foggy day on the Bay. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Gr
G9LTz4s
and a 37′ tri crossing the Atlantic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=DBD6LjymKYk&NR=1 and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQLHWAme4C8&feature=relmfu
and Caimen over in UK, a tube and wire KHSD 26.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=5J0qZbS77wg
The second 65′ ferry bound for Lake Victoria is put into the container near Seattle. The hulls must be cut in half to fit into containers. I mistakenly thought that they had elected to bolt the facing bulkheads together instead of keeping the joins
in-plane of the hull as I advised. The bulkheads are only for alignment. Very pleased to hear that.
Brought to my attention by Jack Molan.
New USCG design. If it only had two hulls…
I seem to have bad luck with sealing a vacuum bag with shipping tape. So, for my last bagging I used only Liquid Nails ($2 a tube). It was a small bag (32″ x 72″ part) so it only used one tube. The shipping tape costs more than that as I recall. My
plastic storm window splines all wore out and I have not gotten around to buying new ones. They are my favorites still. If I have them.
/>and we thought ducks had no more use in naval architecture! They can be used to help epoxy/plywood scarphs without bothering to set up a vacuum system. Explaining how ducks are used to design a hull to the kids is kind of like explaining a typewriter…
Ok Ok, this is why I have been kind of underground for a few days. Was rush deadline for the Singapore Asian Cruise Conference. 49 passenger, traditionalesque trimaran for Palawan. Foam/glass construction. Aeroesque rigs for easy handling. 65′ long
, not counting the styling prod and tail.
One of the new features on my windows 7 is that I can now have a constantly changing background. I have chosen the so far over 280 pictures from the blog. I think its pretty cool. Does anyone else want these? I can’t email as they come to 205 mg for
some reason. A DVD?
Let me know.
There will be a large marine auction at Maritime Marine Center, 1416 NW 51st St. in Seattle on Sat. Sept. 15th at 11 am. You may preview on the previous Friday, noon until 8, and from 8 the day of the auction. I understand the bidding will also be on
line. www.pahlindustrial.com
Site phone 503-807-6380
