A nice adventure story from the people sailing my Cat2Fold co-design. Thanks to Bill Gow again for the heads-up. http://cat2fold.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/mexico-by-bus/#comment-65
More Cat 2 Fold Adventures
Are X Bows Just a Fashion?
Many have called the swept back X bows or America’s Cup Bows simply a fashion. I say they have real advantages. The argument against says that you lose buoyancy as the hull buries. That is true, but you also lose drag. It becomes more wave piercer. And at the moment you lose a few hundred pounds of displacement, you are actively participating in hundreds of thousands of foot pounds of a verb. A few hundred pounds are irrelevant. Now check this out. A link sent to me by Owen Myers. The military often has a big enough budget to research things. See http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?152989-Xbow-Sea-Axe-A-future-in-the-Military-Design
Email Gone
Back. I have several new posts ready for here, but first I have to finish the new Kai Oli Oli power cat bid set. It seems to go on forever.
Most important, Outlook would no longer open email today.
The fix was the Inbox Repair Tool. It simply made every past email vanish. Only yesterday and the weekend were not backed up yet. If you sent me one then, please send again. There were a lot of them.
Out for a Week.
It seems that I'm out for a week. F17 through F27.
No phon
e, no traveling. I will get those 3D modeling jobs done finally.
Powercat Brazil
I just got some nice pics from my friend Luis in Brazil. We collaborated on this 46' powercat. He builds them. Looks pretty nice to me. Its not sinking; that's a wave.
Find them at nauticaintegral@hotmail.co
Phone: +55 (0) 24 99077260
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Fury
And its impossible to miss the Fury catamarans in Key West.
I have mixed feelings about Fury Charters in Key West. They are the biggest operation there. I visited the boats and they look very well maintained. They run at least 4 of my 65' , 149 passenger cats. My issue is that they bought one set of plans and bootlegged the rest of the boats. It wasn't money issue. Peter
visited me in his Lear jet. Must be how the 1% see the world. I do understand it is under new owner now. All I can do is grumble.
Blu Q in Key West
My final visit on the road trip was the Blue Q in Key West. This 42' daycharter cat was the first boat in a box. It was built in Arkansas and trucked to the panhandle where it was assembled and launched. Capt. Steve reminded me that the boat was 20 years old. Like the other cats, it looked new. See http://bluqkeywest.com/
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