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More From Simo
The guys sailing the KHSD 24 in Italy (they have that great video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfSQg4s_LsU and they promise another one soon) sent some new pictures. One in a pretty good breeze,
- flying
and look there, pulling a wakeboard in a storm. Guys, be careful.
- wakeboard in a storm
KHSD 65 in Issue 127
The KHSD daycharter catamaran Alii Nui is shown in an ad on page 115 of Professional Boatbuilder. It was built by Schooner Creek of Portland, OR and operates out of Lahaina, Maui. See
http://www.aliinuimaui.com/
Another cat featured with no designer listed.
IBEX
IBEX is next week in Louisville, KY.
I guess I will be skipping IBEX this year. It was great last year, but half the draw was being in Florida. Besides too much work here to take a week off. See
http://www.ibexshow.com/
Insulation and Foam/glass Construction
I knew that the PVC and SEN foam cores we use to build boats had some thermal insulation value but I didn’t think it was as good as house construction insulation foam. At the Fiberlay design conference I learned that it is almost as good as the insulation foams. For example 90 kg Airex is 0.24 BTU.in/sqft.hr.F which comes to R 4.2 per inch. Craig Riley tells me that the PET foam gets wildly even better results when in a vacuum.
Nice.
Sarabi is back.
Sarabi, Barry and Karen’s custom 56′ KHSD catamaran is back in the Northwest after a lap around the Pacific. This very gorgeous boat has an Aerorig. Rumor is she might be for sale. Contact me for now.
Fiberlay Expo
Reminder that tomorrow Friday the 10th is the Fiberlay Expo and Technical Training event. www.fiberlay/Expo or 206-782-0660
ProBoat Design Contest
Professional Boatbuilder selected the KHSD 24 trimaran for the picture of Design Contest 3. See http://www.proboat.com/design-challenge-3.html
and I’m sure everybody has seen Romano’s video at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfSQg4s_LsU
What ever happened to the old Shaman?
I began building my first trimaran, Smoholla the Shaman the year that I began architecture school. That was 1977. I first sailed her the summer that I graduated. It was my home for a couple of years and at the same time, the fastest sailboat in Puget Sound, until Chaak came along. She was my CM construction method prototype.
She lives in the Chesapeake now, looking different but still sailing. How nice.
She lives in the Chesapeake now, looking different but still sailing. How nice.
- Smoholla now
- the new cockpit
fury catamarans
I found these videos on YouTube of the kHSD 65 catamarans Fury. They are all aluminum and certified for over 100 passengers.
See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWHRjgGPe0g
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJIhCwgEZTI&NR=1
There are are least three and maybe four of the Fury catamarans in Cozumel and Key West. They must have been synergistic. The original owner managed to get three or four boats out of the same set of plans.
YouTube has a whole raft of Fury videos.