Starting tomorrow afternoon I’m out of town until the 19th. That will give me some time to do creative work and not just emails. Being a design office and not Amazon, shopping cart orders will not be filled when I am gone..

The AmCom Design and Manufacturing Show is going on tomorrow in Bellevue, WA. See http://www.amconshows.com/ShowInformation/SeattleWA/tabid/1011/Default.aspx
Visit with local manufacturers of many items useful to building boats.  Including composite bearings.  Free parking from the website or I stuck the car at Bellevue Square. Sorry Kemper.

It seems that the website and all email are down today. I will try to contact server and find out why.  They say hardware issues.  Its like a 5th world country here in Seattle sometimes with access.

I I had to dive into deep offsite archives looking for the Kobayashi 53 catamaran design files. I also found a wealth of old photos. Here with ocean sailor Konrad Kalpen on my tri.  1994 maybe.

I forget where this came from. Enjoy.The more enlightened builders can use metricalc to convert. Someday this will be a spreadsheet.

I forget who gave me this now. It was a few years ago but looks still relevant.  I put it in exactly square…..

All I do anymore is email. Am going to try to hide out next week and do design work. Understand if I keep the email replies brief. And please just tell me what you want and how you want me to accomplish whatever it is.

Nice write-up about the Estonian KHSD 44/46 powercat in Multihulls world. http://issuu.com/multihulls-world/docs/mhw123/search?q=p32 Enter the search word “arteran”
And at http://www.artcat46.com/en/
I have mixed feeling about this.  It looks beautiful still. They have added so many goodies downstream that the payload is now close to zero. It began as an efficient green power cat for ocean voyaging. The mission gradually crept to being a party barge and filling as much of the space between the bow and and transom as possible.  I often see this in people new to catamarans.  Instead of declaring a cabin size and letting me put the right size of sled under it, they pick hulls first and then expand to fill up the “wasted space”.  Up high are the worst seats on the boat in waves.  It has now become  a flat water vessel.  And will surely trim aft.   Discouraging.  Maybe I know nothing about the market and it will sell like crazy.

When I sailed on the 65' Alii Nui they had this great brochure on board. I finally scanned it and got permission. A kind of big pair of scans, but worth it.

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