Saw another great picture of my 63′ cat Profligate as the Baja HaHa mothership for the upcoming race. From the Latitude 38 magazine blog. www.latitude38.com/lectronic/LectronicLat.lasso.
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More 38′ Trimaran Trawler
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.
38 Power Trawler
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.
Scroll down the page and turn down your speakers. I could not grab any pictures from it. http://www.pedersonmarinesalesllc.com/
Been Out a Lot
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.
More of Alex’s Mast
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.
New Amas for Faamu Sami
Job for today was to render the design new ama bows for the KHSD 46 trimaran Faamu Sami. First a comparison study was done overlaying the old and new on a 3D model.
New Go Pro on Adventure Cat
I expect to see a lot more great pictures coming from the Adventure Cats with their new Go Pro camera. See also http://www.adventurecat.com/
Oh, and I’m Back
I forgot to mention that I spent a couple of days away in the desert working on the lunar lander project. www.themarsoutpost.com. Recall it is a low impact tiny house built with boat building materials and techniques.
Latest, the lower floor bits bonded together with epoxy finally. Resting on main floor for now. It will be inserted into the white bit behind it. I do have to scramble a bit for the next month or two to stay ahead of the UV. It has to get to primer as soon as possible.
Diamond Seaglaze
Last week I got to visit Alex’s 45′ KHSD catamaran up in Bellingham again. Alex always has useful tips on products. I will be posting pictures from the trip shortly. Meanwhile, it turns out that Diamond Sea Glaze marine window company has a kind of ongoing yardsale on the odd window. As Alex notes, “Here’s the link to Diamond Sea Glaze: http://diamondseaglaze.com/
Go to the products tab. They don’t call it ‘surplus’ or ‘overstock’ but ‘in stock'”
Uline
A company called Uline sells shipping supplies. www.uline.com
Among many things that boatbuilders might use, I found pallet covers on page 133. They are basically vacuum bags with only one side open. Only up to 5′ by 5′ or on the next page, 3-1/2′ by 12′ as sofa covers. Would speed up bagging small parts.