August 2008
Cleaning up the office, I found this wonderful review of my 37′ cruising catamaran, by legendary designer Robert Perry. Before he became a trumper.

One of my 40′ catamarans is for sale. It is a lengthened 37.
https://www.multihulldesigns.com/designs_other/37bdcat.html
Seller wants $150,000. He reminded me that is about the materials cost alone. The shell is almost done. The back face of the aft cross arm and the transom are already built.
The construction is excellent. Vacuum bagging and peel ply on everything.
It is about 150 yards from the salt water so can be moved on its own bottom with very little work.

My 140′ sailing cargo trimaran is getting some traction.
An amazing discussion on my 140′ cargo trimaran. It’s 33 minutes but is worth listening to.
Ian, my customer got great news from Barbados.
“Good afternoon Kurt
Just received response from CEO EXPORT Barbados 🇧🇧
” This is excellent, looking forward to working to deliver this during 2025″

iCloud

I guess you have to download it to hear

Alex needs to sell his boat.
$200K
It was called “the highest quality owner built boat that I have ever seen. A fine boat and a fine man.”

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Kurt Hughes Sailing Designs – design

3123 Fairview Ave E, Suite 203, Seattle, WA 98102 ∙ (206) 719-4893 ∙ khughes@multihulldesigns.com 

www.multihulldesigns.com

EDUCATION

1977-1979                            University of Washington                            Seattle, WA

B.A., Architecture.

1979-1981                            University of Hawaii                                   Honolulu, HI

Graduate work.

1992                                       University of California Berkeley              Berkeley, CA

• Continuing Education in Engineering.

• Composite Materials Workshop XVI.

WORK EXPERIENCE

1984-present                        Kurt Hughes Sailing Designs                      Seattle, WA

Owner/Architect

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Kalewa and Profligate were caught racing. I don’t know who won.

For the last couple of years I have been designing an update to my 63′ catamaran Profligate for Craig in New Zealand. Unfortunately it turned out he wanted everything changed. The plan set consisted of 38 PDFs and 75 CADD files, plus all the spreadsheets and Autocad files. I did everything he requested. One of the last things he asked for was instead of the usual aluminum bow tube, he wanted a curved carbon one. I did and I also included how to build it drawings. We agreed that he would send another $5000 for all the changes that were requested. Then on New Years 2023 he caught covid. He has be apparently in the hospital until a few weeks ago.

When I finally saw him online I asked how he was doing. He told me that I was fired and he was going to start another design with someone else. I thought he had lost his mind. Again, I had done everything he asked for and he was enthusiastic about the work, until covid. I told him that I could remind him of our hundreds of positive Messenger messages we shared. I discovered that they had all been erased. No evidence remains. Suspicious.

It is one of the best plan sets that I have ever done. I am offering it for $25,000 to recoup some of my loss. Introducing it here before it goes online.

An example of the detail I did. Of course all the laminates were called out.

A former client got some 36′ plastic cat hulls and he wanted me to design a house for it. Instead he built something simpler and uglier.