All posts by kurt
Cat 2 Fold 30
Three years ago I designed what I thought was a simplification to Rafi’s Cat-2-Fold beams. To make it less costly, I chose off-the-shelf mast sections as the connective beams in place of carbon fiber laminations. Rafi thinks it won’t work. I think it
will. It has never been tried. I publish it here with the understanding that if it is published, someone somewhere else won’t be able to patent it and prevent me from using it. I can’t afford to patent it, and besides this market is just too small to make it worthwhile.
So, some of the snapshots. Ignore the unstayed mast bearings.
Note from Simmo
Nice Note from Martin in Thailand
Hi Kurt,
here i am with the halves done. 10 people working we did it in 1 hr and 5 min or ten, each of them. Very happy. Super smooth, easy to bend and using Epotec Resin. It looks very ok. Meanly because these days is bloody hot here. 7 am alread
y 29 celsius arriving to 40 at 2 pm.
As soon as i get the time i’ll send you some pictures and maybe a short video.
A bad news is that some “visitors” got in my place and tooks some ply……
cheers,
Martin
Building Boards
I saw a couple of weeks back that Matthew had some good pics of building a board for a big cat. Find at http://cadanoche.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=15084
Will see if I can cad
ge some for the foils chapter of the new Construction Manual.
Charterboat-in-a-Box
I finally grabbed pics of Steve’s 36′ Charterboat-in-a-Box in Bellingham. See the socket in the far hull. It will fit into a container for shipping overseas.
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And the beam itself. See the mast ball, receway brackets and jib track.
ProBoat Radio
It looks like I will be on ProBoat radio again tomorrow morning. The topic will be my attempt to use boatbuilding technologies on land buildings. Turns out the Codes are apparently intended to keep anything new and different from even starting, or a
t least starting easily. See
The Lunar Lander Project
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 @ 11:30 a.m. EASTERN
“Multihull designer Kurt Hughes (Seattle, Washington) joins us to share lessons learned from his “Lunar Lander” project. “The mission,” he says, “is to build a line of habitable space landers providing creature comforts with low impact on the land and high amazement factor.”
Inside the lander, there is open space, with external modules for bath, galley, breakfast nook and storage. On top is a clear geodesic dome with queen size berth under it. The dome is suspended by carbon fiber tensors so the light can stream in down all around the berth.
Hughes will share the rest of the details of this project with us, and we’ll also discuss what the building industry might have to learn from boatbuilders, and the ways in which this project has become an education for Hughes.”
Please send your questions and comments now by emailing radio@proboat.com.
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Alex’s Cat
I finally downloaded the pictures of Alex’s beautiful 45′ KHSD cruising cat being built in Bellingham. It will have a carbon Aeroesque mast. Foam/glass boat.
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