Looking for some pictures for a customer, I stumbled onto these. Mark Evans with his tri Tachyon at Kelly’s Landing here in Seattle, in 1977 or 1978. Mark was a sort of guru for a generation of PNW multihull builders and sailors. Design is a Sally Lightfoot 26.
One of the best sails I ever had was with Mark. We were sailing in a snowstorm here on Lake Union. December ’78. Utterly silent.
The latest edition of Multihulls World.
http://issuu.com/multihulls-world/docs/127mw
Maybe someday they will have one of my boats in it. I probably have as many projects going at any moment as any other designer out there.
I have mixed feelings about these pictures. I just got them from the builders of my 46′ power cat design in Estonia. They took my 3D model and hired a kid to finish it up, as he works for much less than I do. The earth is indeed flat. The kid did good work. I get to see it on the water at the Helsinki Boat Show I hear.
A few years back a multihull sailor friend wanted to face the recession proactively by building teardrop trailers. Its really a pretty good idea to use boatbuilding technology to do that. I designed one using a sandwich of 3mm plywood faces with 3/4″ pvc core. Biaxial corners and glass cloth on the exterior and wear surfaces. I recall he built it bright. It is light, strong, quiet and insulated. He had a budget of one hour design time, so the 3D model is pretty spare. A little time spent scaling the wood grain and adding some homey details like windows would have helped the cuteness. There it is.
I might have included these guys long ago, but they have been busy building my passenger ferry and other projects so here they are again. I go there to see the latest on my passenger ferries for Uganda. http://www.thainboats.com/
They are also now building the catamaran houseboat hulls that I designed for Rod Gibbons. See http://www.eco-seacottage.com/
The new Design Portfolio makes a great gift. Order online at http://www.multihulldesigns.com/portfolio.htm I see that my posting of this new book on the website got overwritten with the old book. You will get the new book. I will fix that on the site as soon as I can.
From the pages of the online Latitude 38 http://www.latitude38.com/lectronic/lectronicday.lasso?date=2012-11-26#.ULQB9uQ0WSo
Pretty cool. Found© 2012 Southbound Solar / www.southboundsolar.com
I just got note that the second boat I ever built (third one I designed) is for sale. I remember it being very quick. I once literally sailed circles around a sailing Cross trimaran with it.
http://sailingtexas.com/201009/shughes27100.html
I just got a first picture of Paul’s KHSD 45 catamaran being built on Prince Edward Island. Paint job looks great from what I can see. Isn’t like almost arctic there?
I almost forgot that Fish Expo, now known more upscaley as Pacific Marine Expo, is next week in Seattle. http://www.pacificmarineexpo.com/
This is where to find serious boat equipment vendors, not yuppie fluff.
I see they changed the days a bit.