And does anyone have board molds and would like to build one or two for a 56′ cat?
OK, here are the pictures and hypothesis. The owner reports that he didn’t hit anything and the crash block was not crashed. Further, the balsa core was not soft nor rotted. The laminate was triaxial, as was designed. He thought there was a buckle on one side.
Notice that the balsa is at the faces, but there is foam in the middle. It looks like Airex or divinycel. Both in 100 kg density or less have much less shear and compression strength than balsa has. Recall that the highest shear load in a beam is at the centroid, as is the lowest bending load. Enough side load could move some of the rigid balsa into and crushing the much weaker foam. The core is there for shear transfer between the faces. Look how thin some of the foam layers look. Crushed. It looks like the weakest link failed, to me.
I got these pictures of two of my cats in Netherlands. One is the famous Zeevonk and the other is said to be a revised build of one of my designs. Both wet and on the hard. Anyone have any more information?
It turned out that the problem is both intermittent and is with my cell carrier, Verizon. My office email is also on Verizon, with a plug in cell modem. This could take a while. If you have an email bounce, if you could forward to me for forensics, when it is back up.
I have been using my laptop with Squirrelmail while travelling. But that unit has recently started sending email with reply of same@multihulldesigns.com, which is incorrect. One more thing to sort out. I’m on the road this week so if you could replace the “same” with “khughes” for this week.
My 36′ daycharter cat in a box will be on tv this Sunday. Owner Eric notes “Paradise Sailing Hawaii, will be on a show called “Hawaii Life” this Sunday, Dec 11, on HGTV. According to the HGTV web site it airs at 8:30PM.
The name of the episode is: From Cold Aspen to Sunny Big Island. http://www.hgtv.com/shows/hawaii-life <http://www.hgtv.com/shows/hawaii-life>
The TV crew was on board filming for 2 hours. They even hired a chase boat to get shots of us under sail in the sunset.
The show, however, is only 21 minutes long…. we are anxious to see how much time we actually get.”
Female molds are available for two of my designs. First, for the 46/48 daycharter cats like Leila or YellowBird.
Next, a second set of Sunchaser 58 molds are available, in Canada. Contact me if you want to build any of these cats much more quickly than usual.
Drizzle/Reliable still does not know what caused interruption of my server. I do know that some of you mentioned emails bouncing then. Tech asks if you had any emails bounce, if you could forward to me and I will to tech.
On slightly related note, Century Link said they could do my office phone for half the price of the reseller. Supposedly it was today. Not sure if they did it or not and if so, if my features still work.
My cell is different system and is at 206 719 4893 if needed.
