Clearly I am not intervening quickly enough to prevent this kind of mistake. It’s a Fontaine-Pajot Maryland 37 Trawler. It is intended for displacement speeds. Top speed is reported to be 15 knots with 140 HP per side. It is not only dragging transom, but a huge transom. I don’t know but it sure looks like a cat designed by single hull designers. Even a heavy powercat of the same size but correct hulls should do 20 knots with about 80 hp per side. I tried to make an intervention, but clearly am not famous enough.
I almost forgot about this short video of Leila at Holo Holo Charters. The hulls were built rapid construction using a CM developed plywood female mold. In those days we surfaced the mold with epoxy and that presented some work finishing it. Now I would squirt it with Hi-Build only. Then wax and PVA. Quick and wonderful shape.
Anton was wondering about NY Cell PVC foam. Numbers seem to be similar to divinycel but I have no experience with it. Price is said to be much better. Has anyone here used it? There is this link but it is not terribly useful. http://www.pvc-core.com/
I wish it didn’t have the fin keel and it seems to have some trim issues. Almost every plan has a weight/trim spreadsheet that the build is supposed to keep updating with.
I always like seeing projects where cost is no object. This unit probably cost the same as 2 or 3 of the Yellow Bird 48 catamarans and I see no big difference. And its plans surely cost 10 times what mine cost. Why can’t more of my guys not care what it costs?
