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.
Palmetto Breeze Video
Check out this video from the KHSD 55 charter catamaran Palmetto Breeze. She sails out of Charleston, SC.
Historic Charleston. athletic women in bikinis; whats not to like?
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Charleston-SC/Palmetto-Breeze/66586621671
The video.
http://www.cofcsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=14800&ATCLID=204979487
Sorry about the ads. And don’t try to pause it to escape the buffering. It will flip you back to zero when you light it up again.
Another 65 Cat Ferry
KHSD welcomes Aquarius Fiberglass of Goa, India. http://www.aquariusgoa.com/
They are building another of the 65′ catamaran ferries. Construction is foam/glass with ply/epoxy internals. Welcome.
65′ CM ferry in Africa
I found this very cool animation of assembling the KHSD developed plywood passenger ferry for Lake Victoria.
It has bigger cabins than I designed and will be wildly heavier. I tried. See http://ewventures.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/new-ferry-animation/
