I have put the newly created CM Female Molding graphics into a construction manual of sorts. I will make it available at the website soon. /pdf to get to all of them.
It only has computer graphics at this time.
I just installed a great scanner in the office and I will be scanning the photos of the applicable multi builds to also be added to the manual.
I have also come across an armload of back when pictures that I will post.
What it says. This turbo version has ama boards and rudders. CM developed plywood with carbon mast sections for beams.
A proposal I just did for a 65′ fishing cat. It would be based on the 65 ferry. In CM plywood/epoxy hulls and ply/core/ply flat areas.
I will be out of the office from M14 through M23. I will have the workstation with me and should be able to catch up on some 3D modeling. I should have email where there is WiFi.
Anyone have any projects in Iceland or Scotland that I should look at?
Wandering back from the post office after shipping a plan set I saw this interesting 4×4 van. It was painted Stars and Stripes blue with Stirling 2 part polyurethane paint.
It is also a tiny house for ronin boat builder James Moreland.
Bed across the back. Galley on starboard. Office on port. Call him if you need help on a boat project. Hit him at 206 380 7094 if you need help on a project in PNW.
Glad to meet him.
Back. A few of the plans of the 42 daycharter cat sold last week. It needed conversion to metric and some of the hand drawn parts converted to CADD. Thats done. Back at it next week on this blog and the custom projects.
You surely remember the broken lumber A-frame shown recently here on the 42 daycharter cat. The owner chose to replace and update with a standard alloy tube and wire system.
My worst fears about MSC came true.
I submitted the stock, stamped, original plan sheet to MSC. I also submitted an 2017 version with the same section properties or better. Keys Rigging submitted the proposed with extra strength on all items.
It was rejected. They wanted the calculations also. Done. Those were rejected until I would explain how I did my calculations. They did not have a standard to aim for. In fact I was asked to explain what the relevant factors were. It has been almost 2 weeks of back and forth now. My fear that nothing that was settled “law” before, is now.
I have probably done a hundred of these, and I bet Keys Rigging has done that many also, or more.
I also get the feeling that they are stressed and angry at MSC. Maybe Trump chaos has hit there also.
This is one part of why no postings last week. Deadlines also. Next week will be better I’m sure.
I finally got the first run of modeling the updated 23 daysail trimaran. Version B will have ama rudders and the even hotter version C will have foils. It is a developed plywood/epoxy unit with core vacuum bagged onto the flat surfaces needing that. And carbon fiber where it helps. At around 360 kg lightship weight, it can be built for around $5000 us in construction materials. The connecting beams should be carbon mast sections. The camper version comes next.
I see an ad for Masterbond flame resistant epoxy in one of my tech magazines. Says it meets UL 94V-0 specifications. I see nothing about meeting E-84 though. Product is EP21FRNS-2.
www.masterbond.com
Has anyone used this product?
The 27 cat update is pretty much a complete study plan now. I just finished the longitudinal sections drawing. First the rendering to recall what it is, then todays drawing. Demountable and trailerable.
