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.
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.
new printer should arrive next week, a Canon iPF765. It seems that it has a screen that carries on discussions with one… “I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave…” It might take a couple of days to sort out how to run it. One issue is it will not accept any input from LPT1. I do have a few thousand legacy Generic CADD files (still best 2D CADD program ever developed). Does JD or anyone have any thoughts on getting LPT1 files into USB? Only thought I have is to stop them off at Visual Cadd on the way, then plot from there on USB.
I see Knight and Carver in California went under. “Please be advised, Knight & Carver Yachtcenter, Inc. of National City, CA will be sold at auction to the highest bidder on Tuesday, December 4, 2012. “
Realized today that I really miss not having Murray-Pacific Salvage and Boeing Surplus around. Are there any replacement salvage places to any degree that anyone knows about?
