looking for used sailmaking plotter

[Sergey]

Hello!
We are a company working in a field of tensile fabric structures in Moscow, Russia. We are looking for a used plotter (we can`t afford a new one yet) ProSail or ORION (A-frame single rail type) by Blackman and White of 2000mm width, that could be mounted to the existing table of 20m long. Or something just alike to mark patterns on matrial itself. Sometimes we use the ProSail plotter at PARAAVIS workshopshttp://www.paraavis.com. But it is not our own plotter and it is only 1620mm wide. We are closely working as POLYTENT with WALTER GROUP (lightweight structures) and FERRARI (PVC-coated fabrics) in France.
We`ll be thankful for any information on where, how to get it, how much...
Best regards.
Sergey Nikitin. Technical director.
www.tent-lsk.ru

[Stephen Ditmore]

I'm afraid I can't help with the plotter problem, but let me run an idea past you.

I've been wondering whether you could use a tortured plywood method similar to that used at
http://www.by-the-sea.com/stillwaterboats/
to build multihulls. I see it being analogous to sailmaking; you could use a sailmaking program to shape each piece of plywood like a sailmaker shapes panels of sailcloth, giving each edge some curvature before scarfing them together. Plywood here in the U.S. comes in 4'x8' sheets, and I think the international standard is similar. To build a 40' catamaran I'm thinking one could shape the long edges and then scarf them together, so that their long dimension would run keel to sheer. You could either assemble them there in Moscow or sell precut panels that could be assembled anywhere in the world (note also that high quality composite panels can be purchased from
http://www.atlcomposites.com/product...flex_intro.htm).

http://www.geocities.com/dumchikov/bio_design/
appears to be the web site of a Ukrainian multihull designer. If you were to build some multihulls to his designs, whether using my method or another, I'd be interested in marketing them in the United States.