I finally downloaded the pictures of Alex’s beautiful 45′ KHSD cruising cat being built in Bellingham. It will have a carbon Aeroesque mast. Foam/glass boat.
Alex’s Cat
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Category Archives: New Designs
Electric Cat
Saw an unusual solar powered catamaran last month in Monaco. It had nice narrow, snakey wave-piercing bows but the transom was chopped off and at maximum hull beam. I guessed and later read that it would not do more than 14 knots. That kind of transom is all wrong for low speed displacement hulls. I guessed it was designed by a bored, rich illiterate who had seen some magazines. I found out later
was done by Craig Loomes who should know better. Now I'm really confused. It did make it around the world. What if it had been done right?
Industrial Strength Metric Convert
Its pretty powerful.
http://www.onlineconversion.com/
New Ad
Multihulls World (Multicoques) put together a very snappy new ad for the Cruising issue. If that is your picture, let me know.
Tim’s Mast Bin
There are about a dozen spare masts at the backlot of CSR. Most are about 60′ long and with sections for 40′ + boats. Contact me or Tim about getting one.
Most are off of monos so will need some customizing. They will not know the section properties of a particular mast, but I can measure any one and get a pretty good idea what that would be. http://csrmarine.com/
Tim cell 206-617-2001. Remind him that you are my customer.
Saw Chaak Again
I visited CSR boatyard this week. Chaak is still there waiting for its mast to be put on. Chaak was the third boat I did. Actually I did just the amas and the beams. Main hull revise came later. They did a trip to Hawaii and back by way of Alaska a few years ago. Tim remembers noticing how the boat’s shadow would leave the water every few seconds. Was airborne much of the time. Amas are CM.
I recall it was built in ’86 or ’87. See also http://www.multihulldesigns.com/designs_other/sp_chaak.htm Those gold ducks on the side are Duck Dodge wins.
Survived the Surgery
Stitched up like the zombie but back at it today. The books and study plans have all gone out. Am chipping away on the emails now.
New Design Books Going Out in the Morning
Yes. And I was able to add a little treat that I suggested earlier. All you patient orderers get the book on CD also. Some of the links are not yet hotted up as the Pagemaker files need to be run through Indesign to do that. I guessed that could add a day to the eternal process so I burned the CDs today without that step. Seeing all the pictures in color is the big benefit.
Good Progress on Emails
Am back through about half of the 200 that were waiting. It moves along.
Original Tomcat 30
I just got some pictures of a version 2 I think it was, Tomcat 30 trimaran from the owner, Robert Wakeman. This was the design that first got me into Multihulls Magazine. The idea was to be the fastest 30′ multi possible that would meet offshore racing rules. Back then none of the multis I saw thought about headstay tension and pointing. This design did. Not much I would change now some 30 years later. It had big board, big amas way out there. Rotating fractional rig. Now I would round the sheers more. Add a squaretop main. A little more fullness in the hull sections. Lighter hatches.
A pretty cool boat. See http://
