I try to send them same day, or as soon as I get back to the office, or on the road if I have everything with me.
Especially recently several people are not getting them. A week or two later they contact me to find out what happened. I try again and it works. What up?
Maybe when you order, email a backup email address to me.
And when Matthew gets back from his walkabout, I will see if we can strike the mailing address of the order process.

More Ulstein workboats intended to mitigate big waves with a better ride.  Pacific Maritime Magazine.

Saw the afrorementioned Elua at rest in Lahaina harbor.
Looks pretty sharp for an almost 30 year old boat.
Divinycel, triaxial and epoxy. Uncommon back then. Probably my last hand drawn design.

Sitting here on the deck working at Kanapali (kanahaole I call it), when catamaran now called Elua transits my view. Far away but has the distinctive arched bow tube. It was my first COI cat on Maui. Guys visiting the build revised the structure, badly. 1987 I think it was designed.

The hull molds to the latest reverse bow 37/40 foot catamaran hulls are available at the very impressive Jim Betts boatyard.
I will find the rendering of the 3D model.
This is the mold to the top half of a hull.

Once again I am giving a 10% discount to any full plans orders placed on or before our tax day of April 15th.

It is not done at the shopping cart as webmaster is overseas.  Instead you place your order, and I get back to you with the discount.

It looks like I might have made a big mistake buying these switches. They don’t work, and Adafruit, the company in New York, has a policy of not allowing any calls nor emails either way on anything.

https://www.adafruit.com/product/1476

A switch should be pretty simple; a hot and a ground in, and the same out. Switch shows negative on one side and plus on the other. Simple. I spent hours trying every possible combination. Nothing. The lights worked great when I put the connectors together without a switch. The switches had no instructions.

Online it says “ The body is a black plastic with the LED built inside. There are two contacts for the button and two contacts for the LED, one marked + and one -. The forward voltage of the LED is about 3V so connect a 220 to 1000 ohm resistor in series just as you would with any other LED to your 3V or higher power supply. “ I wish I could as them what that means. It takes two contacts in and two out to be a switch in the universe I know.

Also the spade terminals are non standard size and are too fragile to tolerate crimped standard female terminals.
I would have been happy to pay much more to get the working version. If there was anyone who I could tell me what to do. What am I missing?

The pisser is they are so cool, if they worked.

Yet another TV crew was shooting on board Kolea this week. Look for us on an upcoming episode of Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, on the Travel Chanel. They had a historian on board chatting with Andrew about Hawaiian history. It was really interesting.

36 foot KHSD charter boat in a box operating out of Kailua Kona.

Charly’s 36 KHSD charter cat is now available for charters.
The Spirit of St. Simons.

CHARTER!

I can’t believe it. DX Cart is still unable to connect to Authorize.net. I would find another shopping cart, except webmaster is on a walkabout in India for a couple of months.  They keep saying it will work in a day or two.
I tried to put all this information on the website with the new Dreamweaver 17 or whatever the newest one is, and the new laptop.  It kept losing remote server and told me to come back later.
I’m going to try my old laptop that is 100 years old in dog years now, and to use an older, less twitchy Dreamweaver tomorrow.