I got to visit my first COI cat on Big Island of Hawaii.
1987 i think it was. Still carrying passengers every day. Looking good.

I got to visit my first COI cat on Big Island of Hawaii.
1987 i think it was. Still carrying passengers every day. Looking good.
I forgot to post about my 63′ daycharter power cat, Kai Oli Oli. I visited them December 3rd. I got to ride along when they practiced their man overboard drills. Oceanjoycruises.com/our-boat/
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The next morning we inserted the bow unit. Done.
And a look at the hull frim behind. The aft area will get smaller after the bulkheads are installed so the crew can walk into the hull.
And a side view to show how round the hull section is.
The next day the biaxial in the gutter had cured. Ready to fold it up. we got delayed as one of the cranes was too small and had to be enlarged.
The hull goes wild until it is put in the deck flange.
Next the gutter has structural bog and biaxial roving placed in it. Shown is Matthew’s biaxial roving impregnation device. Cool. It worked pretty well.
Next the two hull halves were wired together with zip ties.
I got to spend three days in Sarasota helping build a 48′ cat hull.
the first picture shows what the panels we will use look like.
I have been tempted to walk away from this job more than once. I decided I could warp the hulls enough to carry 700 kg of motors. 1543 lbs of outboards. It is for daycharter out of Miami but they didn’t know the USCG would require railings. I’m at version 21 now.
I am doing this 55′ foam/glass powercat for a repeat customer. I don’t know what is wrong with the windows.