I have to admit this unit looks so cool that I can’t stand it. What a work of art! The green windows make no logical sense but how cool are they?
It almost like a 15 year old gamer designed it to only exist in cyberspace, unrestrained by how it will be at sea. I can think of a dozen things that will not be right at sea, but it doesn’t matter. It looks so cool.
Nice mood video of the KHSD Trilogy IV. It moves much better than the Searunners, if I may. https://vimeo.com/120256371
I just got this wonderful note from Joe. I got to sail on his boat in Lake Tahoe back the same week Sierra Cloud had her first sail.
“Hi Kurt! just thought I’d check in and say how much I enjoy your Blog.
The little tri is 26 years old now. Yes I know it is hard to believe.
I don’t baby this boat. It is kept on a lee shore and mostly sailed in
strong winds. She doesn’t look much different than the day I launched it and
shows little signs of wear in all key areas.
I guess at this point we could say the construction is sound.
I’m glad I didn’t go with a “famous designer” with all that I hear
about those boats.
Thanks for the great design. She has given me many years of good times.
Blog on Kurt!
Joe Hollerbach”
I think it was some 20 years ago that I first did my sliding cross tube trimaran design. Several other people offered suggestions, some of which were included in the design, including the UHMW centerline dropboard.
Many commentators told me that it would never work. Several have been built since then but nobody has ever filmed one sliding. If I had any sense I would have built one instead of the Geko.
I did know that some other trimaran designs had started doing sliding tube designs, but I had not seen one. Finally some video of a design at
http://www.astusboats.com/ The tube connections to the amas are sketchy and I see no centerline compression resolution method, but.
and here I go again. 20 years ago or so.
I was asked to update the design of the 149′ trimaran ferry, but there is no funds for design yet. X bows now for smoother ride.
Nice pic of the 38′ power tri showed up here. it looks like it was or will be doing what it was designed to do; be a kayak mothership.
What a nice video, courtesy Jon Reed. I had not seen it before. It is Lance’s 37 tri that I designed back in ’86. Before CADD. Still looks quite modern and fast to me. Cylinder mold plywood/epoxy. Lance was professionally building Constant Camber but chose this for his own boat. Still looks fast for a livaboard cruiser. And it looks like somebody bought a drone doesn’t it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxfZgb5fTEY
I got a couple of pictures of what looks like one of my 37′ or even 40′ trimarans, from John who saw it. Located Block Island.
Does anyone know the boat? I first thought it was one of the 37s but it looks a bit bigger overall to me. If it is the 40, there is funny story. It seems that multihull legend Jim Brown went to look at it and its plans while it was being built. His reported comment was “Hughes is just showing off.”
I had not before seen this sequence of pictures of the making of Pat LeMehaute’s KHSD 37 trimaran at Islamorada, FL. The link is only on Face for now so you have to be from there to see it. Foam/glass. What an amazing job.
OK I find that none of the Facebook links work. Will see what I can do to get the sequence here. Kludge would be to go to Pat’s Face page and find the albumn.
While in japan I got to visit Andrew and his KHSD 37 tri. Not many sailors at all in Japan. The locals think he exists for their amusement. He was hauled out about 15 meters from the sea and maybe 2 meters above it. When I was there we got word from a fisherman that a typhoon was coming. I see on the news that Kyushu where the boat was got hit square on. Hoping for word and the best for him. Also found at https://www.flickr.com/photos/96861389@N00/sets/72157626206345542/
