I got this note today.  Interesting.
“Dear Mr. Hughes,
I found a post online from you that refers to a confidential design bid proposal request.

It is highly unprofessional for you to start posting complaints about us and referring to a confidential bid request.

I also do not remember offering to pay anything for Bid Requests on the Project.

The project is ongoing and any damages from your releasing inappropriate confidential information may come back to haunt you.

Please immediately remove you references to our Bid Proposal and the “New Stiletto 10 Meter”, as you do not have trademark ownership or license to do so.

Regards,

Jay M. Phillips Managing Director – Stiletto Manufacturing, Inc.

Jay,

I tip my hat.  Well played.  The project is already generating controversy buzz and it is just beginning.  Only problem is nobody reads this blog.

I went back over the request email.  There is nothing about confidential.  Zero.  And I see no complaints.  Just reporting what I saw.  Is illegal for me to discuss a design?  Were my points not good? If I do several hours of unpaid work for you, surely I get an opinion on it.  And glancing back, they look good to me.

I’ve done a few start up projects.  It might have been useful to listen to some of my notes in the extensive emails we exchanged and the blog page.  A combination of my skill doing more with less, my stylist’s eye and Rafi’s folding system would have been killer.

This is very cool.  Download the Searunner Construction Manual.

Probably nothing in it applies to boatbuilding now, but there is no other book with better sense of the adventure of building your own multi boat.  Or sailing your multi-I remember something about always assuming your motor will die and being ready for that.

http://outrigmedia.com/outrig/searunnerconstructionmanual/

Its like getting the Whole Earth Catalog digitally.

Still slammed here but a couple of quick ones.

Just got little story and pic of one of my cats from Jock, out there doing it.

“I’m still sailing around the Caribbean since 2010 on Unleaded a KHSD 30 ft cat.She’s still a delight.I like telling my “condomaran”friends that it took a year to use the ten gallons of gasoline I bought in Puerto Rico as Unleaded sails so well I only motor into and sometimes out of anchorages (sometimes sail in and out)because “I CAN”.
Met a nice young couple from Maine on the CM version of the 30 ft cat last spring in St. Maarten. (James and Emily) neat to see another KH design.
This year I made a mold and raised the hatches over the central part of the hulls a bit(2 or 3 cm)so now unless it’s a driving rain I can leave the hatches open a crack for ventilation as the rain streams away from the opening.
Here in the Caribbean I can still buy two stroke cycle outboards so I’m replacing my Suzuki 9.9 4 stoke cycles with Tohatsu 9.8 two stroke’s.That should take 20kg or so out of the boat.
The pic is looking towards St.Georges Granada”.

Sorry everybody. Two rush 75 cats designs and a 58 major revision have left me in triage state. And a new 65 coming up next week. Blog here has suffered, and there are lots of new stories.
I will try to load a couple of quick ones.

These are my new Dragonfly amas. I’m not working with the company; its just that I have been doing then since I had Magic Hemple and people keep wanting them. Longer than stock and more displacement.

Foam/glass.  Vertical transom for ama rudders.  These are going to Bellingham, WA.

The extended KHSD 53 cat Lil Explorers has been helping with the typhoon cleanup.  Their most recent job was to deliver a pair of giant water tanks.

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Tanks for Vanuatu! Above & Beyond the Call of Duty.

When the crew of Sea Mercy’s Disaster Relief vessel “Lil Explorers” (Courage and Shannon) got word that the people living on two of the remote islands in Vanuatu were in grave danger and at risk (their water catchment containers had been destroyed by Cyclone Pam), they made a decision to find a way to help. Where everyone said it could not be done, they said they would find a way to help. The question was how to get the water tanks on their vessel and secure them enough to make the 80 mile sail to the devastated remote villages in order to deliver them? These pictures show that where there is a will there is always a way. Be warned, these pictures are not recommended to be viewed by the “faint of heart” sailors.

Everybody had a rush or an emergency this week.  Lots of postings have arrived but no time this week to sort out and post.  Might get better next week.

A quick space study of the beam and bar area of a 75′ cat.