I’m working on this 41′ powercat while here in Copenhagen. Sort of a more serious, friendly look at a powercat design.

I just got this picture and note from Ian Walker in western Australia. He writes “I have been the proud and happy owner of a 36ft Hughes cat for 20 years. She is raced weekly for 9 months of the year then cruised around
the NW coast of Australia in the winter. She has covered several thousand
nautical miles, sometimes in atrocious conditions, including 1 night when
the wind exceeded 55 knots, and, to the credit of your design, has never
suffered structural failure.”

I have updated the Neptune 37 materials list. It is now in the newest format with several tabs and many more options. If you have those plans let me know and I will forward.

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