I just got the first pictures of my latest catamaran project in China. A 40′ performance cat. Foam/glass. My first to the CCS rule there.

Courage Winter and his family are cruising in Costa Rica on the stretched KHSD 53′  catamaran known previously as Jack’s Old Boat.  What a great school for kids.

I was sent a pic of Nick out there doing it with his KHSD 42′ cat he built. (He designed the house) Thats the idea.

I have gotten report that multis are and can be hauled out at the foot of Alexander Ave. E. in Tacoma. See http://goo.gl/maps/2zoHb
Let me know if anyone has any better information on this.

I have been using System 3 Gel Magic for my bogging jobs for a while. http://www.systemthree.com/store/pc/SilverTip-GelMagic-c16.htm
The resin part is blue and I call it Smurf snot. Apparently you have mixed it enough when the color goes away. I mix even more just in case. 

I especially like it over epoxy and powder mix for two reasons.  First, I am able to mix something like twice the bog volume in a given time because I don’t have to take the time to mix in powder.  And if you throw it at some part’s vertical  surface, it just hangs there, not dripping.
I had been using regular hardner and it was going off too fast in even just 70 degree days. I finally got the extra slow and its just what I needed working by myself on the project.
Interestingly, if you add any powder, the “just hang there” goes away and it slumps. For that reason, when I extend it with spheres powder, I also add cabosil.

Alex just got his all carbon fiber, rotating, unstayed Aeroesque mast from Jim Betts. I hear it will be stepped soon. He is building a 45′ KHSD cruising cat; kind of a smaller Sarabi 56′.  Bellingham, WA.

Plywood/epoxy.  The work looks great.

I often end up going to Online Metals to get metal or plastic bits. Easiest place I know of to get that 3″ x 3″ piece of teflon, or whatever. On the ship canal here in Seattle so especially easy for me. http://www.onlinemetals.com/productguide.cfm

I wanted to find some ethafoam mats for the lounging pit on the lunar lander project (a house built like a modern boat). I imagined something like the wrestling mats that I recalled from high school would be great. And would be good to work with local company. http://www.bottomsiders.com/
It turned out each 15 square foot cushion would be $1265.00 before tax. That’s $84 per square foot. Yeow. All six cushions would cost as much as a new Hyundai. I have to keep looking.