Customer send me this connecting beam idea and wondered if it would be good on his KHSD tri.
They are from a Scarab 32 trimaran. That unit looks like a cloned F-boat, including the too-small amas. And apparently they fold, but I could not see how that worked there at the site. What I did notice is these beams look like they take the F-boat beam and strut and combine them in one piece, infilling everything in between.
If I may, that solid wall of beam would have to slam like a mother in waves. Both of them. Especially with the small amas. It looks like stuff done wrong again. Maybe someone can tell me why it isn’t so.
Monthly Archives: January 2015
New Holo Video
I think this is a new video of 64′ daycharter cat Holo Holo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGWwW8Uvbd0
Is This the Last DIY Boatyard?
The Landings at Colony Wharf could be the last DIY boatyard that I know of. http://landingscolonywharf.com/
Mark at Colony proudly declares that. It’s in Bellingham, WA. My 36′ Boat in a Box was disassembled there. Several other multis have been and are there now.
Boat In A Box Gets Trucked
Geko Revision Pictures
Stem Unit
I have noticed that the CM construction manual had the stem unit pictures fall away and I did not notice it when I had Pagemaker open.
I will insert soon, but meanwhile here are a couple of good pictures of a stem unit from builder John Stames. He has sent also a raft of other great pictures that I will sort as soon as I get out from under the deadlines.
Move Over Jimmy Buffett
Brian left the snow country. Sorry but only on Face for now.
Stuff Done Wrong
Clearly I am not intervening quickly enough to prevent this kind of mistake. It’s a Fontaine-Pajot Maryland 37 Trawler. It is intended for displacement speeds. Top speed is reported to be 15 knots with 140 HP per side. It is not only dragging transom, but a huge transom. I don’t know but it sure looks like a cat designed by single hull designers. Even a heavy powercat of the same size but correct hulls should do 20 knots with about 80 hp per side. I tried to make an intervention, but clearly am not famous enough.
Latest on Forward Cockpits
As an update to my recent rant against forward cockpits( http://multihullblog.com/2014/12/forward-cockpit-2/), I find this.
Peter Johnstone “Fyi we advanced beyond the forward cockpit to something much better on the Gunboat 55….”