I finally got the first run of modeling the updated 23 daysail trimaran. Version B will have ama rudders and the even hotter version C will have foils. It is a developed plywood/epoxy unit with core vacuum bagged onto the flat surfaces needing that. And carbon fiber where it helps. At around 360 kg lightship weight, it can be built for around $5000 us in construction materials. The connecting beams should be carbon mast sections. The camper version comes next.
A couple of people have noted to me that this new MM TF-10 looks like my Trikala 19, with foils.
I must have come up in the world. MM used to only copy Tony Grainger.
I see an ad for Masterbond flame resistant epoxy in one of my tech magazines. Says it meets UL 94V-0 specifications. I see nothing about meeting E-84 though. Product is EP21FRNS-2.
www.masterbond.com
Has anyone used this product?
The 27 cat update is pretty much a complete study plan now. I just finished the longitudinal sections drawing. First the rendering to recall what it is, then todays drawing. Demountable and trailerable.
I finally got a chance to model this on that I have been looking forward to doing since before thanksgiving.
No windows nor cockpit are cut into the model yet until I verify the interior and weight/trim study. It will probably be built with vertical bows, but I hope not. Main hull not more than 84″ wide.
Displacement is 4217 l bs. It takes 5 HP to go hull speed of 8 knots.
The latest update to the DF31 with ply/carbon cross beams.
Foam/glass main hull and CM ply/epoxy amas.
It must have been a couple of decades or more ago the Canadian beach cat builder Mystere retained me to design them a Formula 40 catamaran. It was built but never completed.
I just got these pictures from the fellow who may be reviving it.
It looks like carbon beam tubes which is very nice.
A basket of thoughts on submitting plans the USCG MSC in 2017.
A fellow who was quite informed about other catamaran designers told me that John Marples has given up on dealing with the USCG submittals. He also thought that Gold Coast had not had a new submittal since Ganulin retired. On the othe side, Schooner Creek thought the whole process went fine on a new submittal.
As I have noted, I am very wary of the new “kids” there and, as I found out last spring, anything that we had as settled regulations for the last two decades could be over. Which leads me to my next thought.
Building departments charge a lot of money for plans submittals. The USCG MSC charges nothing. I imagine that as soon as Trump realizes that some part of the government is doing something for nothing, that will change.
If any of you are thinking of having me do a new plans submittal to the USCG, I urge you to do it now.
The KHSD 42′ daycharter catamaran operating out of Key West, Blu Q, suffered a total bow truss failure. I call it a bow truss instead of bow tube because it was built as a Gold Coast style unit out of timber. I expect that the GC units had pin ends.
It did have more than 25 years of service in it. And rot was involved. The take away lesson is that it had fixed ends instead of pin ends. I’m sure the repeated stress started a crack and water got in. It is being replaced by a standard aluminum mast section bowtube.
Has to be another Palmer Johnson. Not sure why they even bothered adding the amas. It is still a huge fuel guzzling megayacht. It must be some kind of cultural change when vestigal amas are added to megayachts as style points.
As an aside, Andre Cocquyt is presenting the 32′ KHSD power tri at the PBB Refit Show in Ft. Lauderdale later this January 26 and 27. https://refitshow.com/
