One of my 48′ daycharter catamarans is for sale on Long Island. It is a sister ship (PAE) to the legendary Spirit of Fort Lauderdale. Composite, 49 pax. I just got triaxial glass bending strength data. 84K psi bending strength. The builder did a superb job. It should have its COI this June.
$600,000
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″
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.”
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
Continue reading My Latest ResumeKalewa 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.
First 3D model. In weird colors until I understand where everything goes.
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.
