We lost Ted Pike of Edensaw Woods and many other boatbuilding ventures, on the 24th. He was so enthusiastic and helpful on boat and even spaceship projects. He will be missed.

http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2015/09/fair-winds-to-our-captain-ted-pike/

And other items.

From the IBEX again.  20 years ago there were maybe 3 deck plate makers.  Now there are maybe a dozen.  These from THMarine www.thmarine.com are lighter than the typical Beckson and I assume cost less.  West Marine carries among others.

I am so bored with this by now. Hopefully this is the last.  I just came back to these gems.

Dude, get a life.  I copied all your messages.  I would be curious as to what you seem to think is libelous.  Spend all this energy making your boat seaworthy.

“Love how Kurt leaves out half my message. This is not a Kurt Hughes. I used his shitty, incomplete plans to obtain proper connectives and hull skins. Nothing about this is a dated, ugly, undesirable Kurt Hughes shitbox.
One more thing, Kurt. I have begun the process. I highly suggest you think clearly and remove this professional libel from your site. This was the last warning. I am funded and will not back down until this is gone or you go bankrupt in the process.
You want to play hardball? Two can play at this game. Wait until you see the site I make that will appear at the top of the search engine rankings when looking up you, your designs and your business.”

I will post several of the other interesting finds at IBEX, along with the proper links soon.
I came back to cascading computer failures, so am running office off of cell phone mobile hotspot to the laptop.
Parts should arrive tomorrow.  Crawling back to full strength.

For the first time, while travelling and using my elderly laptop workstation, I noticed the dire warnings that come up when navigating to this blog.

It’s fine. Matthew says it’s fine. We don’t want your card number nor anything. Am not sure why it does that, but ignore it.

I attended a great lecture by Greg Lynn, and architect, boat designer, thinker and one of Time magazine’s 100 most something one year. Influential people?

www.ted.com/talks/greg_lynn_on_organic_design?language=en

He was discussing 3D printed parts for boats, but he is also working on marine design informing architectural design.

He did discuss his trimaran, Girlfriend.  I have declared in the past that the tri must have a lot of bog involved in building, as all parts are so organic and smooth.  And thus add extra weight.   I have to take it back a bit.    The interior was light, and entirely built with molds.  The interior alone cost some $100K, and weighed around 80 lbs.  But due to print-through,  it took an extra 100 lbs of bog.

Every part had a full size eps foam mold.  Its a big deal.  Its time and money that I could never imagine on a boat.

We swapped cards. I hope we get to talk more.

It was a very different IBEX from before for me. Few of the usual speakers attended, and I doubt if I recognized a half dozen people. I guess being in Kentucky I should have guessed so. Instead of sailboats and yachts, this was a bass-boat and pontoon event. It wasn’t always this way here though.
The big trend I noticed was fragmentation of vendors. It used to be for things like deck ports or core materials, there were only 3 or 4 vendors worth looking at. Now it is dozens. I will be updating the construction manual again to add the extra suppliers.

This is why I went to the IBEX this year. Glowing light switches. UL listed. All are 12 volt, but with LED lights that should be fine.  Am sure it would really add to the boat experience at night, and be safer.  I will  have to find the brand and link and will post  here.