Friday I was lucky enough to have lunch with composites guru Stephen Crane. There are huge things shaking out in worldwide composites and he keeps up with that better than anyone I know of. He is now working with Space-X. I’m kind of in the weeds in my corner of the world, with my head down trying to keep up with peoples deadlines most of all. The information was much appreciated. The following assumes I heard all correctly.
The bullet points would be:
Core
New fabrics
New resin
Cg of composites innovation.
Today I will limit to core as I left my notes back in the truck.
Gurit is having some issues with supply and pricing Corecel foam. Mitsubishi owns the patent now. Contact Mitsubishi for a more reliable source.
Divinycel’s days are numbered as a core. It’s manufacture is already banned in Europe. The reason is that dioxin is created during its manufacture. It is now only being made in the US, and despite republican claims that dioxins are one of the major food groups, those days are numbered. It is being replaced with PET (Polyethylene-Terephthalate). The properties are not as good yet as crosslinked PVC of the same density.

and at the printers. Usually a week to get them back. Still too big to email (0.3G) but will sort some kind of FTP soon.
I will have electronic study plans (PDF) on the site soon also.
Meanwhile plans to finish stacked up. Fast as I can.

Too many deadlines. The new Design book is still not done. I’m going to duck out for a couple of days and get it done. If I don’t, I will be spending all my time answering calls and emails about where everybody’s book order is.

Even sailors who did every official thing right are having their boats seized by the Mexican IRS. Richard at Latitude 38 has reported this best and most completely.  And Profilgate was also seized.
http://www.latitude38.com/lectronic/lectronicday.lasso?date=2014-01-22#.UuA1dNLTkQU

and a video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae4TQTSRfiQ

A little bit of a cheezy wide angle view of one of the Sunchaser 58s that is not an Oregon bootleg.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHzupZSp9u8

a nice short video of setting up the stations of the 37′ cat lines.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KTJngS6bFE
and
http://www.latitude38.com/lectronic/lectronicday.lasso?date=2014-01-22#.UuA1dNLTkQU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22GrG9LTz4s

Here is another interesting picture of the recent launch of the KHSD 45 cat here. Dried out on the beach for some reason.

Unit 2 moves along at Lake Victoria, Uganda.  Pretty close now.  65′ ferry in CM developed plywood.

Got a bit of work done. New design book about there, needing only a couple of pictures that were still back at the office. I’m also kind of aiming the book at the future when its only available on Amazon, so putting in the hot links and so on.
But also created a new design being built soon up in Anacortes. A 37′ foam/glass cat with an aeroesque unstayed carbon mast. Builder is Jim Betts again.