I got this recent picture of a couple of jobs in the Pedigree Cats yard. Is the truck under the Shuttleworth 53 new? The cat has been there since Bill Clinton was president. It has a luscious interior but looks very dated outside, to my eyes. And the structure is more flexible than I insist on.
The big unit on the left is interesting. It is something like 86′ and nice and wide. It does have no visible main beam under the mast inside. The fiberglass box beam is under the floor. All glass. I did a quick calc and recall predicting a deflection of 2″ (50mm) from mast load upwind. Might be moderately alarming?
Recall that instead of welding SS ears to a SS shaft, KHSD multis have used Goertz style composite ears for a couple of decades. A glass sleeve is bonded to the roughened shaft, then the composite ears are glassed to the sleeve. A nice job by Colm building a 31′ tri.
Its only half way there not being a catamaran, but it has X bow and maximum waterline length. And a forest of wingsails. Chris Anderson style. Designed and being built in Japan. They should have hired Chris as consultant.
Brian caught three KHSD designs at hanging out in Marina de La Cruz. Of course Brian’s Cat2Fold, Bill Anderson’s Feet and the always notorious Profligate in the distance. Richard Spindler’s 63′.
Lots of changes in the biz lately. I will get more details to add here and maybe readers can also add information.
MAS Epoxy was bought.
Schooner Creek Boatworks was bought.
Invictus has a new owner.
Mark Ganulin, the goto guy for multihulls at USCG head office at MSC, has retired. IBEX seminars has a new director, Sarah Devlin.
Who is this again? Anyone know? From the spelling, maybe it’s a drunk posting? I thought he was in rear view mirror. Doesn’t he know nobody reads my blog?
“Kurt,
I’m really pissed off that you’d make public statements devaluing my asset and impacting my income (real legal damages).
I have one last civil recourse before i do go to legal.
You need to take down every photo which you do not have permission to use and delete your comments on my boot in thoer entirety,
In exchange, the boat will not be a Kurt Hughes design and you can publicly say sonif it ever comes up.
All i bought your plans for was the hull/connectives. It’s my design. We can leave it at that, unless you want me to do more than have the attorneys send the demand letter.
Ball is in your court.
If you continue to create negative publicity for me and my boat, i will mot hesitate to sue you for the charter income and boat value damages.
Please let me know your decision”
I keep seeing more earnest, helpless, odd entries to the R2AK race. People, if winning is of any interest, and from what I have seen, maybe it isn’t, you need something like this. A modern tri. And compared to the cookie cutter F-tris; its much wider overall for the same length; it will stay more level, spilling less wind. Round bilge will tack faster. No struts to douche the crew in waves. This was designed for Simmo before he dialed back. Add some oars and rock and roll.
