Faamu Sami, now called Pipeline 3 , KHSD 46 tri, was relaunched at the Lyman Morse boatyard recently. You can’t see much about the new bows here, but this video is all we have. I wonder who did the new laminate design work? I did the new lines. I think. http://www.lymanmorse.com/boatDetails.php?boatID=165#prettyPhoto/0/
Proboat Radio Archives
Proboat Radio is no more. But you can visit all of the archives of Proboat Radio.
I got to go on a couple of them.
http://proboatradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/ProBoat-Radio-Archives-October-2013.pdf
for Catamaran Sliding Doors at IBEX
Typically my cats, and others, get burdened with enormously heavy aluminum and tempered glass sliding doors at the cabin back. And we try to save weight everywhere else.
These structural plastic trucks and track channels look like a great way to escape heavy, clunky sliding doors. I will design some details soon to use these. Teak Isle. www.teakisle.com
No More Ugly Engine Rooms
Nice Note from Barbara Jean
IBEX organizer and renaissance person Barbara Jean Sunshine Walsh “At #IBEX13 I had some postcards on my desk with a notice “Postcards from the Future” and invited speakers to fill in their home addresses and give me a topic, with the promise that I’d write them a postcard poem — In The Future — not to exceed 34 syllables. Nine of them took me up on my offer. This is the first one, based on a true story, told to me years ago by Clean Marine Systems’ David Flagler after his wild ride on a boat designed by Kurt Hughes. The best part of the storytelling was just as he finished, we got out of the cab, walked into the Miami hotel where everyone was staying, and there was Kurt sitting in the Lobby. Great moments from IBEX Past.”
SWITCHES at IBEX
IBEX 2013 Handouts
Everybody who could not make it to IBEX can see what the now paperless IBEX handouts were. http://bit.ly/I13HandoutsChart
You, and I, can see what we missed. You if you didn’t go; and I, the ones that I didn’t sign up for.
Muffolo Racing
another great video from Simmo. http://www.youtube.com/
2nd place for Muffolo at first day of Coppa Dallorso 2013 Regatta (28 nautical miles of racing course) just 9 minutes gap from the first much bigger Trimaran (Dragonfly 920 extreme) battling to the end and beating a 50 footer mega oceanic trimaran, a 8 meters trimaran (Dragonfly 800), and a 7,50 meters catamaran!
1st place in the second race of the next day, with 54 minutes gap from the second (Dragonfly 920 Extreme), a day characterized by strong gusty winds and gales. Starting with strong offshore wind that made us battle side by side at a speed of 18.3 knots, then, near Monterosso, weather wanted to vent all his anger with a huge storm, with gusts detected at 63 knots. Luckily we managed to haul down all the sails on time and we avoided going to the rocks dragged from the fury of the storm, but the scenery around us was really looking like “the perfect storm” movie: sails flapping hard enough to sound like thunders, blowing up sails, boats drifting at the mercy of the gusts at 90 ° heeling with crews in total panic calling for help, and all this in a visibility up to 20 meters! The whole thing lasted a full 30 minutes!!
After this we hoisted the sails again and we resumed our race surfing between 12 and 18 knots until the arrival, finding that the direct challenger was still behind us.
The photo shows one of the rides at 18 knots before the perfect storm arrived.
A Huge thank to FORMULA sponsor for supporting us giving us blue new wonderful sails and SAILORWEAR SAILS for finishing them!
And thank to my father for building Muffolo SUPER STRONG 15 years ago!!