It means the same thing, I suppose. Trimarans typically are designed to reduce the wetted surface area, and sometimes to inhibit leeway. So if...
There is a video you can get from Ray Jardine about his Atlantic crossing with his wife. They bought one of the plywood boats, and spent the off...
Back in the 80s when making strip canoes and bent shaft paddles I used a lot of Weldwood. It was a tan powder one mixed with water. Nice to work...
Water level, tape measure. And the rest was just the shears being on a plane Then check the bows. If the thing is built without twist, or...
A series drogue will work, though a lot of things work when one is willing to slow the heck down. What this thread is missing is any hint as to...
Speaking aft rigged spars, and Florida cats, anyone remember that book the $6000 dollar catamaran (or similar title)? Multihulls magazine put it...
If you look at part one of the Taulua movie, you can see them applying a bucket of two part urea formaldehyde glue to the plywood deck of their...
Some may remember the interesting story of a couple who built a wood, tar, and paper catamaran in the UK and then sailed it to Mexico. It was...
The cartel part aside. Lots of interesting build experience for large cat in Aluminum. [MEDIA]
Thanks for posting this. What an amazing boat, and current owner!
Based on that design, looks like a mashup of two well known and quite old designs. But structure, and even prototype wise, could be very interesting.
I would like to see that information, now that it is no longer a commercial situation. The scantlings were release for that spar on the Tremolino...
At least with cedar you can see the growth rings. Some of the tropical woods like mahogany. without growth rings are a bit of a mystery as to...
By the way, very helpful, forgot to say above. I can only imagine that the reason they used the ply schedule they did, given that as we all know,...
Quite the address you have going for you there Eric, since this thread last received oxygen. Must be some good stories there. Thank you for your...
That was a fun forum. For quite a while I had something like 1/3 rd of the posts there.
It is an old thread, but a few notes anyway: When it comes to all this liability and engineering, which I am sure are correctly summarized, it...
I haven't read the 24 pages, but arrived here via checking up on the status of Anhinga conversations. I have plans dating back to one of the...
I made my KHSD amas out of 4 mm plywood, and they have held up for 30 years, they don't see a ton of use but are really tough and well shaped, and...
I have been looking for these for a long time, including somehow missing them here in searches for apparently years, most grateful for the downloads.
