Nanowood for superior insulation. Supposed to be better insulation than aerogel. http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-nanowood-20180309-story.html

The same team who invented super wood.  First they do killer structure, now amazing insulation.  Coat with epoxy.  Someone will not want to hear about this…

This could be very good structural insulation for future multihulls.  Maybe even a lower cost structural core material.  Especially if it keeps the great fatigue strength of wood.

Shopping cart using Authorize.net is still down. It turns out that they made some changes and DXCart, the shopping cart company was unaware of it. And they, DXCart, say it will take a week for them to upgrade.
Paypal still works. And I will be looking for another company tomorrow.

On the technology plus side, I now have a phone again.  Took two hours  at Verizon.  “We have never seen anything like that,” failure.

Over the last several days the shopping cart has tossed a few people out with an error message. But oddly, at the same time some people are able to use it.  Ok those are the Paypal users.  Looks like Paypal is it until I can sort out Authorize.net.
Webmaster checked our end and is fine. I contacted DX Cart the cart provider, and they noticed problems with Authorize.net. Said they would get back to me, last week. Not a word back. I will make more calls tomorrow.
Hit me with a call or email if it happens to you. And I do have a working cell phone now. Kind of. Many features not yet there.

Today March 8th I will have no phone until I get a new one up and running. My not to old LG stopped working last night and a new battery is not the fix.

I have to use computer to communicate today.

For all of us suffering in the cold and rain or snow, Brian offers a cheery picture.

I thought I would just look in Fisheries Supply yesterday. I needed some pretty esoteric items and didn’t expect to find. They had everything.
Maybe everyone else knew about these, I don’t know.
My 110v to 12v transformer has some nasty exposure. I wondered if there was a paint-on electrical tape. Done.
The spray paint hazard Orange for the spaceship sills lasts about 2 weeks in the basin sun. Done. Industrial grade hazard orange for fishboats.
My wonderful glow in the dark 12v switches had the smallest spade connectors I had ever seen. Auto parts store just shook their heads. Fisheries just asked, “how many you want?”
And the plastic docking cleats for coat hooks.
What a resource!

First run at a 100 foot container cat freighter for the Caribbean.
X-bows, unstayed pipe masts, Maltese type sails, I assume that is best where rigging can’t get in the way of loading and unloading containers.  Open to any other suggestions.
Single skin laminate and stringers in place of hull core.
Crew of 4.
And clearly I need to get kiwi Chris Anderson involved.

I know I talked about this before after realizing that the new guys at MSC now didn’t know anything. I’m not sure if it happened or not. I have note out to webmaster but nothing back yet.
The big realization came after working with the USCG on the Blue Q bow beam. Since they know nothing about catamarans, things that we have done for decades are now suspect. I had to run a 10 hour seminar on bow tubes, I had to build force diagrams for them and give the legacy of every force involved.
This is possible now on anything on a COI cat.
So I’m having a 20% price increase on charter cat plans as soon as it can get done. Act now to get ahead of me.

I think this is still the coolest sailing vid I have ever seen. And the Bakerfield folk punk garage band soundtrack is perfect.  Muffalo, unit #1 of my 24′ tri,  from the Bay of Silence near Genoa Italy.
https://youtu.be/9u6UepbaCKo