I’m finally able to start updating the very successful 45 cruising cat plans. Some of the recent performance cruising cats that I have seen look like they intend that looking good is more important than being usable.
It will still have full headroom, excellent shorthanding ability and cruising usability.
It does have a hotter sail plan keeping with trending now.
The plans are available at the old price until the study plan set of the update is available.
I want to thank everyone who ordered multi plans during the recent tax day sale.
This week I will be getting everyone’s files, discs and prints out. And to the the pro builders also.
The scanner again. Gary Garver standing beside the 38′ catamaran that was built at the Good Shepherd’s Center. I’m thinking it is 1985 maybe.
Kenny built this in Port Townsend long ago. They are out having fun with it. Not to be confused with the Adventure Cat daycharters in the Bay area. 41′. For cooler weather cruising. 1996 maybe?
This comes under the heading of stuff done way wrong. A fellow sent me these pictures and noted that the underside gets pounded in any waves. He wondered if I could help. When I saw the pictures, I remarked that it looked like something that John Shaw would do. He asked that I don’t hold it against him. 100,000 lbs. displacement. 71′ length, but looks like around 65′ of real boat. Draft 5 feet. Thinking some kind of wave splitter is the only possible solution. If I could have only done an intervention before it came to this.
Chris Anderson is here squeeging the Rovelock laminate into the CM female mold. 1988 probably. I recall that this photo was also in the first or second issue of ProBoat magazine. Laminates were done one side at a time, but the bag did the whole mold. The rounded sheers were molded from sonotubes.
I am doing more scans from the old photos. This is Smoholla the Shaman racing, probably in summer 1981. It would have had the board instead of the keel, but with the old amas still.
Its interesting that we are behind Seafire, a Brown 40, as we won every race that year. Except a second against Limelight at Hoggshead. The mug is the diabolically brilliant Bob Dean. I’m not sure who the speedy cat on the left is. Maybe it is Limelight. This was a scan of an ancient Xerox. You use what you got; goes for photos and sail wardrobes.
A shot scanned from an old photo. The Gecko dry assembled under the Fremont Bridge where Google is now. Thinking that might be in ’92?
Balsa core, Rovlock uni glass and System 3, 2 Phase epoxy.
Since I just installed this scanner, I might as well use it. My 31′ x 24′ home for a while in the early 80s. The 4 hp outboard would push it at 6 knots.
Back in the 80’s I noticed that sometimes when bagging a CM panel on the mold, the part only touched at and near the front of the mold. Especially with stiffer plywood. We would put pipe or 2x4s on the top to press it down.
Eventually a lightbulb went off in my head. Why have parts of the cylinder mold there that are not always being used? I did one hull that way but about then Charles at Multihulls published my first design and I have been scrambling to keep up ever since. It never got puttered-with nor published.
Its not that big a thing, it just saves plywood. The hold-down gutter is the same. A lumber runner along the bottom of each tiny station keeps the mold from tipping over. And by ajusting the angle of the stations, more possible hull sections are possible.
With this mold system, the exact same type of plywood must be used on all of the panels in a particular hull.
First, a comparison with both types of CM.
Next, zooming into the Airmold. Showing with both a panel on and off of it.
