Finished up and sent off to Buffalo NY, one 48×28 day charter catamaran. About 14 months with a crew of three plus an occasional fourth. Here are some pix – some text and vids to follow. Three sets of images, the crossbeams, the daggerboards and trunks, and the hulls.
heres a little video of turning over a hull: https://youtube.com/shorts/sbAoR5XPQ_g?feature=share
The 36′ BIB stuffed into a container.
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/
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.
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.
