Lots of changes in the biz lately. I will get more details to add here and maybe readers can also add information.
MAS Epoxy was bought.
Schooner Creek Boatworks was bought.
Invictus has a new owner.
Mark Ganulin, the goto guy for multihulls at USCG head office at MSC, has retired. IBEX seminars has a new director, Sarah Devlin.
Who is this again? Anyone know? From the spelling, maybe it’s a drunk posting? I thought he was in rear view mirror. Doesn’t he know nobody reads my blog?
“Kurt,
I’m really pissed off that you’d make public statements devaluing my asset and impacting my income (real legal damages).
I have one last civil recourse before i do go to legal.
You need to take down every photo which you do not have permission to use and delete your comments on my boot in thoer entirety,
In exchange, the boat will not be a Kurt Hughes design and you can publicly say sonif it ever comes up.
All i bought your plans for was the hull/connectives. It’s my design. We can leave it at that, unless you want me to do more than have the attorneys send the demand letter.
Ball is in your court.
If you continue to create negative publicity for me and my boat, i will mot hesitate to sue you for the charter income and boat value damages.
Please let me know your decision”
I keep seeing more earnest, helpless, odd entries to the R2AK race. People, if winning is of any interest, and from what I have seen, maybe it isn’t, you need something like this. A modern tri. And compared to the cookie cutter F-tris; its much wider overall for the same length; it will stay more level, spilling less wind. Round bilge will tack faster. No struts to douche the crew in waves. This was designed for Simmo before he dialed back. Add some oars and rock and roll.
Here is what I had in mind. Something like Nick’s house cabin. Nick can be found sailing his 42 up and down the west coast.
I just got some nice pictures from a family in Sweden who bought one of my 42 cats and cruised the fjords last summer. They are heading to the Caribbean this summer. They are adding a Nick style house cabin. Its one of the wide overall version. CM plywood epoxy.
One of my customers has ordered an off the shelf vacuum bagging table. They are actually truck beds. I understand the cost is very good. More on that after he gets and uses.
I seem to recall that Kelsall said he could build a bagging table in was it 4 hours? It takes me that long almost to wander around Home Depot and remember what I was working last weekend. This should be very very fast. Up to 10′ wide by 58′ long in one bit. http://www.fiber-tech.net/images/stories/productdescriptions/Product_Data_-_2012_CLADTUFF.pdf
I run the latest anti-virus software, and my ISP does too. Today however it seems that all my outgoing emails are bouncing back as “banned sender”. As I recall that means someone at my ISP had been spoofed into spamming. I have complained and assume will be fixed by tomorrow.
Not much time for the blog. These three jobs are all with deadlines. Still I would not have been able to meet office costs if the stock plans had not kicked in. Weird business. The latest of each. First the study model of the 40 dive cat.
Next the 79′ daycharter cat
and the 75′ cruising cat. Almost done.
It is interesting to see the two different KHSD 65 passenger ferries in Uganda. Bluebird on the left is much lighter, and was designed to fit in almost half the containers. Both boats are built with CM developed plywood/epoxy.
And the crew on the new Bluebird.
A couple of tiny powercats have just been invented that mimic my 21′ powercat designed long ago. Get it here way first. And mine would be far faster to build in developed plywood. All it needs is a roof and kyaks. Oh wait, my 21 operating in Alaska already sent pics with both on it.
Again, these finds and many more thanks to Owen.
From Wooden Boat, “the 22′ kayak-carrying power catamaran SEAHORSE is the latest SKETCHBOOK concept design developed by Laurie McGowan and Michael Schacht.”
