Usually we think of composite structures only being found on boats. Here in Copenhagen is a composite window structure in a hotel. Probably they are pultrusions.  Horizontal one is a solid fiberglass flange.
Vertical is fiberglass box section. They are much less of a heat sink than metal framing would be. Composites go corporate!

Once again we are offering the wildly successful Holiday plans price discount. Matthew has had to work a bit harder at it now as robots run the shopping cart and nobody can see the card numbers. I understand it will be for all orders over $1000 and will be for 20% off as before. Party on.

Matthew here, – would have been really easy, if i had any Excel skills 😉 – it’s all set up, the discount is 20% on all full plan sets, regardless of price… when you get to the shopping cart you will see the discounted price. Runs until January 15th. Now’s your chance to start building!

I only saw this picture of Steve’s KHSD 36 chartercat-in-a-box when a soon-to-be-customer emailed me this picture from Korea.  This picture is in Bellingham, WA.

I will be out of the office next week from Tuesday until the 20th.  Denmark.

I will have email surely but no phone.  I see this as a good chance to catch up on my 3D designs with no or few  interruptions.

Robert Wakeman sailing his KHSD version 1 Tomcat 30 trimaran on Mobile Bay sent this video.  Seems it plays on Facebook but here demands that I update my player. 

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=493264190717724

Sarabi had double curved tempered safety glass put on her front windows. They are beautiful and strong. Not everybody can find it though. I got a call from a group from New Zealand expanding in the US. Not sure of price but…www.durashieldmarine.com  and

| New Zealand Head Office |65-67 Woodcocks Rd | P.O. Box 358 | Warkworth 0910 | New Zealand | Freephone   0800 883 336 | f: +64 9 422 2566

    Auckland | p: +64 9 422 2565                    Wellington | p: +64 4 974 8753                   Christchurch | p: +64 3 281 8601 | www.glasshape.co.nz

| Australia |17 Catalano Rd| Canning Vale | Perth WA 6155| Australia | Freephone   1800 042 716 | f: 1800 040 934 | www.glasshape.com.au                         

   Sydney| p: +61 2 8011 1831                       Melbourne| p: +61 3 9099 0200                 Brisbane| p: +61 7 3175 0501                 Perth| p: +61 8 9468 2722

| United States of America | Fort Lauderdale | p: +1 954 703 2333                   | Seattle | p: +1 206 538 5416

stumbled onto to dozens of mind blowingly beautiful pictures at Holo Holo charters on Kauai. They have a couple of KHSD boats. http://www.facebook.com/HoloHoloKauai?fref=ts

A few things recently combined to create a huge transformation in how I view the nature of design plans. The first element came from David Smith. He suggested putting bar codes on the plans so that smart phones could link to specifications and the like. Nice.

Then, I had to get the new printer; a fast color printer. Just-in-time printing is possible instead of copying off of old originals.

The last idea came from attending a Native sketch comedy group, the 1491s last Friday. They had most of their sketches on and playing from YouTube. YouTube has been around a while yes, but seeing it used this way inspired me.  Just-in-time prints could not only have specifications linked by Q-codes (barcodes), but also the latest how-to video from YouTube. Or even video of the design actually sailing.  All on a smartphone, so totally portable. Or right on the shop floor with no other infastructure needed.  No PC nor video screen is needed.  That was one take-away from being in Uganda; smartphones are everywhere.  Technical papers could have references or even useful video embedded in them.  I think this is pretty big.  A shot of the printer again.