I'll leave you all tonight with this cool email I received from Shuttleworth when I asked about his favorite sails. Re sails. I do not have a...
Willie Pack here. When we lifted her back in the water the crane weighed her at 5200lbs without mast. Engines were on. She is fairly heavy...
Hey everyone, My father and I are nearing the back half of our project, building a 32 foot catamaran designed by John Shuttleworth. I have...
Question about post curing. I have finished the vacuum infusion on a foam sandwich hull with epoxy. The hull is outside in the sun with a black...
Attaching a picture Here's a pic of my one off male mold as we are laying the foam core.
I'm using divinycell foam core for my catamaran. We're currently laying the divinycell on the mold and since it is grid cut with scrim backing we...
Thanks, I'll run a test on the mold, about one foot wide across the middle, where it is about 10 feet across. What is bog?
I tried a 120 gallon air compressor tank as an accumulator. The only thing that it accomplished was sucking oil out of the vacuum pump. Make...
The direction of our resin flow will be perpendicular to the large cracks in the foam. This, I think, would eliminate the racetracking.
Successful Test We're doing everything we can to reduce dissolved gas in the resin by hand stirring and heating it. We're also reducing the...
Cat Builder, Haha! My wife already caught me bringing my materials into the house and yelled at me:) Luckily she is a sailor so it wasn't so...
Details of Infusion Yeah, I lacked quite a few details. We may have been successful today with a test infusion using Compoflex on both the mold...
I'm having a bit of trouble trying to get my laminate schedule properly wet out in vacuum infusion test panels. I'm using a 24 ounce biaxial...
@ Mirkosebastian It will be difficult to design for dismantling. The forward beam that is designed to not only join the two hulls also takes the...
Herman, thanks for the info. I may elect to go with a single skin, but reinforce with more than the required layers of 24 ounce biax glass and...
Hi everyone. I'm building a 32 foot catamaran and we're ready to begin vacuum infusing the decks on our male mold. I have a question about core...
Hey, I'm building another Shuttleworth design slightly larger than the Chetah. It's the Shuttle 31, but Shuttleworth modified it for me to have a...
I was thinking about putting a sheet or two of Kevlar in the sides of my catamaran. That might stop some of those lead projectiles. Packsail...
