While in Oahu, I got to visit Elua (formerly Trilogy 2) thanks to Woody Brown (son of that Woody Brown). A friend of his has it as a cruising boat now named Moana. It was my first composite COI boat. In those days the USCG didn’t care if the builders followed the plans. Probably 1987. A retired Australian metal worker told them that I was doing it wrong and they should do it the way Lock Crowther did it 15 years earlier. Prior to this design I attended a great composites conference where Ron Reichard showed his OSTAR catamaran Fury, and how strong it was. I used his principles. I mentioned that. The builder heard that Flury broke up at sea, and confused the two. He decided he didn’t want to build a boat that would break up. They followed the Australian.
Bob sails his 34′ KHSD powercat on the north shore of Kauai, which the USCG considers the most extreme weather in the US. He does the Napali coast tours. He has to take the boat out of the water at the end of every tour as there is no safe moorage. 34′ x 12′. He has to come out on a narrow ramp. Foam/glass.
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.
