I understand it was 30 years old, but still. Composite one would not corrode.  And a composite one becomes part of the structure, not along for the ride.

I have long known that Owen seems to know just about everything that is happening to do with multis. It seems that about half of everything here originates with Owen.  And as an aside, he is building one of my Formula 40 trimarans.
I urge everyone who can to follow Owen at the Multihull Appreciation Society over at Facebook. If you want to keep up with everything.  Here I lean toward KHSD news and things that might help my guys.

And if you are good they might let you in.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/8876669502/

Maybe everybody knew about these, but Steve at Schooner Creek suggested them to me for the new 79′ Sierra Cloud catamaran.  Not quite flush but pretty close.  And it will need some non-skid tape on them.
http://www.mauriprosailing.com/us/category/1-Lewmar-Flush-Hatches.html

The new 45 cat was designed on the laptop while I was out of town. That has some limitiations, including that none of the later versions of Microstation can do trimming of objects reliably. I have an old SE version on the workstation that can trim anything. Anyway it is good to have all the horsepower to work on it. I hope to get it into study plans over the holidays.  The story is in an earlier post.

Thanks to David. Sad end. That looks like starboard side ama. Must be a bulkhead there. It was double diagonal planked.

Recall that Larry always had a large board in the boat.
Funny story about that. I just today see that the CSK cat Imi Loa is for sale. I recall Larry mentioning that back in the old days Imi Loa was going to do Swiftsure. The owner was bragging that he would beat Invictus. Larry asked, “Did I hear you say you don’t have any boards? You won’t even finish on the same day.” And they didn’t.

Never too many Profligate  pictures. Richard goes to such interesting places.  One of my 63′ composite designs.

At lunch with the guys at CSR I learned that Invictius went on the rocks up near Everett. It did make it ashore and is being repaired. I saw a picture of a giant shark bite out of the keel area of one of the amas. Larry was not driving. A Mr. Southerland owns it and gave it a snappy paint job.
Crewing on Invictus was a kind of rite of passage for many in the PNW.  Larry designed and built it and has been racing it since the 60s.
I will get more details and pics of the repair.
Below is in happier times.

Its the first KHSD Dragonfly.  60′ in foam/glass.  Cruising the Pacific.

A note from yesterday.  “Back in SavuSavu after a 500 mile out and back to Futuna to restart our clearance into Fiji. Good sailing both directions and great hospitality in Futuna.
Futuna is a department of France and many of the men were wearing their flowered leis. ”

Beginning the new 79′ Sierra Cloud design. Got a great picture of the original one at winter haul out. 27 years of service.  CM developed plywood construction.  55 feet.