I just learned of the passing of Meade Gougeon today.
http://www.mlive.com/news/bay-city/index.ssf/2017/08/meade_gougeon_michigan_sailing.html
As I noted a few years ago here at brother Jan’s passing, they basically invented modern boat building.
I did have the priviledge of speaking with him at several MACM marine composites conferences and also at IBEX conferences. The photo was 2009 IBEX I think. Miami.
About a year and a half ago I did this simple, flat panel dive cat. I don’t think I had time to post it back then. Or if I did, I have tightened up the design since then. It was designed for inboards with the hull melding into a skeg. The design brief changed to outboards. They may be in production now. Foam/glass flat panel. A variety of house cabins are possible.
Loa 42′-8″ 13m
Boa 18′-5″ 5.64m
Disp 15,070 lbs. 6835 kg.
Draft 1′-8″ 0.5m
100 hp per side for 20 knots at above displacement.
Nice little shot of John Jacques expanded 37 trimaran transom. Says he modeled it on my 72′-75′-79′ trimaran design transom. (customer took me through complete revisions to each length before skipping out) So I can finally see what the 79 might have looked like if I squint. Lots of nice detailing.
Is everybody going to IBEX this September 19-21?
Nothing has jumped out at me as something I need to know more about. Though Steve D’Antonio or David Gerr or Scott Lewitt or Richard Downs-Honey are always worth the time. And it is on the balmy west coast of Florida now.
Still I get the feeling it is more about chopper-gunned bass boats than what I do. Am not sure I would learn anything.
I must admit that I am a bit cranky that they were utterly uninterested in my paper on building an R-3 permitted tiny house using entirely composite boatbuilding technology and materials. I always thought interdisciplinary work was intriguing often very important. I guess not.
Let me know if you going and what you expect to see. Certainly you will miss the eclipse, and maybe a druid ritual or two.
It seems like almost every project start is on hold in the dog days of summer. A magazine asked me to send them a design so it was an excuse to tighten up the graphics of the 27 Cat upgrade. Complete study plans are ready.
Seattle just changed how numbers get dialed here last Saturday. That means my land line forwarding no longer works. I set that up like 25 years ago and see no record of how to change forwarding.
So lets use the cell for everything. And it takes text also. 206 719 4893. For everything.
For years, maybe even decades, Farwest Paint has sold a Matson 2 part epoxy marine primer that I always called 545 at half the price. Many of my builders have used their great products at much less than the rock star paint’s prices.
At my last trip I was informed that they no longer carry it. They have replaced it with a one part. 20 years ago a change usually meant an upgrade. Now days it could just mean that sales only increased 8% per year and corporate quashed it.
I bought and tried. It does make life simpler; not having to mix and wait to induct.
The new product didn’t feel as tough in my unscientific opinion.
And the guys at the sales desk were new to me and unlike in the past, didn’t seem to know anything about the products. I wonder if Far West was bought out? I will find out.