The government ferry agencies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on studies about bizzare ways to mitigate wakes on their lumbering metal catamarans. As noted in my powercat article, a light, slender pair of hulls must be too easy of a solution.
Rickard, builder of one of my 37′ cats, sent me this picture of one of my 42′ cats tied up in scenic Helsingborg, Sweden. Beautiful summer there. They are out taking advantage of it.
Latest 3D model update. All new ortho views pulled off this model now. This incarnation will be lighter and slightly wider overall. The severe perspective is kind of interesting.
Everybody else was too late. It looked like deal of the century to me. My friend, and previous KHSD tri builder Thomas Dalzell bought it. It will be updated with more overall beam and new larger X-bow amas for the best ride.
I finally got my first pictures of the actual KHSD 38 power trimaran trawler completed. It is for sale for a crazy low price. Construction looks great. The amas look way too small to me. In the design, they go up to the underside of the cross tubes and have rounded deck. An easy fix that one is. New versions of it have even bigger amas, though friend Steve Scheidler crossed Pacific in about same size boat with same size amas as designed.
And I had the motors on the sides of the main hull so it could turn in its own length.
I’ve been away a lot taking advantage of the rare sunny days in Seattle to get the lunar lander done. When in I seem to be doing plans support and trying to keep up with drawings needed. Blog has suffered. Will be in more next week.
Here are just two of my dozen pictures of the rotating, unstayed mast on Alex’s 45′ cat building up in Bellingham. Jim Betts did the mast construction. I did the design, with FEA help. More pictures soon. In the first see the mast and balestrom, as well as crane lines. Second is closer to the carbon mast at the bearing area. See the splines that the balestrom slides onto. I hear launch is soon.
