This 48′ daycharter cat is being built with CM developed plywood technology. It will be Peter’s third CM boat.
These are the CM hull panels.
48′ daycharter cat being built in Sarasota
Category Archives: Charter Catamarans
Kamanu at 35 or 36
Kamanu, my first day charter catamaran, has been operating for 35 or 36 years now. 36 x 24. CM developed plywood.
I will be over to visit her in late November.
They Are Back. Lake Chelan Ferry
Lake Chelan Ferry Launched Again.
Its back in the water with new hulls. The previous builder’s hulls delaminated.
the New Lake Chelan Ferry Hulls
Cliff got master builder Joe Kitchel to come up and do a Berlitz class on boatbuilding for Cliff and the boys. It worked. Beautiful hulls with no delamination. It took place in an abandoned fruit warehouse nearby. It was well insulated so they could run the temperature up as needed.
65′ Daycharter Molds Being Built in Roatan
A nice plug for the 65′ daycharter cat built by Roger.
48″ Day charter project
Hi! I’m starting the build of a kurt hughes design day charter cat to be completed spring 2022 in southwest florida. it will be a cylinder molded wood composite build. I’d like to communicate with anyone else who is currently building, or has built a similar boat. i’m a professional boat builder, having built and worked on several of kurts designs.
couple of questions:
- anybody have a suitable dagger board mold? or want to use mine when i’m done with it?
- any good leads for sourcing rudder shafting?
- if anyone needs uni or triax i have found somebody with a couple tons nearby (sarasota area). vectrix and very reasonably priced. let me know in the comments and i’ll post info.
Lake Chelan Ferry Begins Operation
On the 12th of June the Lake Chelan Ferry will be able to begin operation. Notice the surplus Airbus seats.
more salty cat
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Salty cat is about to be splashed
More Lake Chelan Ferry.
I found a picture of the new Lake Chelan ferry taken during sea trials.
It was loaded down with about 8000 lbs. of sandbags, which was to simulate 32 passengers and a ton of cargo. It did the required 20 knots, but I thought it should have been able to do better. It still could.
The pair of 200 hp. outboards were still new and weren’t pushed exceed 4000 rpm. The props had not been experimented with.
There was substantial water sloshing around in the bilges. The roll and tip bottom paint application was never tipped. The surface was like sandpaper. The owner can wet-sand the hulls. And finally, there were a few divots below the waterline that could be filled next haul-out.
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