I just got word that a bank in Greece decided in favor of my Greek customer, GEORGIOS ANAGNOSTOU. They decided that he can have his powercat plans for free. It turns out that anyone can use this method to get things for free. And I am not allowed to know the name of the bank nor of any contact person there. I did submit proof that he he got his plans, and Paypal agreed with me. It turns out however that any local bank anywhere can have the final word. I was curious what their threshold was as I provided proof that he got the plans. What else would it have taken to have gone my way? No way to know as the bank is secret. You would think if you get robbed, they can at least let me know who the accomplice is.
Paypal leaves designers and other merchants completely unprotected. Many of you have given me suggestions about what hard-case methods other designers use. I hoped it would not come to that. Paypal told me the only possible recourse I have is Small Claims Court. I assume he would laugh at the judgement against him. Again I urge people not to use Paypal on the website for now.
Interesting former stations on this cat build. What are all the holes? Notice nice examples of different foam densities for different loads, and wide planks on the flat parts.
Here is a carbon fiber hinge, built by Russ Brown, that I got to touch. It must weigh a couple of ounces, and be at least 4 times stronger than A36 steel. Of course it makes no sense as carbon is most useful for deflection driven parts. But you can prove that you are one of the cool kids with these. These are like the chocolate chai caramel vanilla hazelnut white mocha caramel sauce classic syrup mocha cookie crumble frappuccino of coffee drinks. These are the definition of yuppie. What do you suppose they cost? $100 each? $500? I wish I had some.
I got to catch up with old friend and boat building legend Roger Hatfield today. I had one insight before the meeting. I often am critical of shoddy designs and/or shoddy engineering. I have heard it put up to resentment or something else.
Be clear, I have probably lost more jobs to Roger than anybody else. But he does great work. I have never seen anything to be critical of. Thats the difference. He is in town working out the build of a new Bieker 50′ something cat. The design fee will be at least $100,000. And I hear so much whinging about my design fees.
I was in Fiberlay last week picking up some biaxial roving. I saw the carbon fiber blowout sale is still on.
Soon as I get this project done, maybe one of those 12′ tris out of carbon. www.fiberlay.com
