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Google is your friend.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ezifold-Yachts/212821925457790

 

That's a relief redreuben. I'm glad they weren't mad when they gave the FBI my browsing history.......Is facebook our friend too? I'm holding out for junk bonds to make up for not being invited to the wedding.........

(This is another example of off topic humor and does not reflect the opinions of this forum about Google, Facebook the FBI or the users of any of the preceding.)

 

Healthy cynicism is alive and well,
for those interested in the photos, you don't have to join the dreaded FB.

 

Thanks for that Reuben, to others as we mentioned before back a few posts we post to FB to keep our own website uncluttered with updates, we are flat out here with days starting at 5:30am finishing usually at 12:30am ish next day by the time we finish with International clients in different time zones, this is broken up to our own prototype work on the Cat, design work (our own and for others) and a contract in town on another Company's prototype work, and now starting on the Tri development with the Buc, hence it just works for us to post photo's once to one site (that just happens to be ours) we keep people on here that are interested up to date with a quick note so they can look if and when they want to have a look purely out of appreciation for the great help we have received through members regarding the Buc 24.

 

sleep?

OTB, Keep up the good work, and try and get a little rest.
B

 

Its realism not cynicism Red. I had to call the bureau once and the agent commented on what a busy week I'd been having. Of course I hadn't mentioned my week but the punch line was hearing everybody in the office laughing. It felt very comforting to know how we aren't alone in the world....

Seriously, these are tools of friendship and knowledge . Nobody decent would misuse them........

 

Hi Bruce
Thanks for that, plenty of time to rest when one is in a box ;-) A good amount of progress today in the workshop and a couple of video's one of the strip in process to show those emailing with questions, the video was a bit dark as is night now having just shot it under workshop light 11:45pm below the cabin on hull side, workshop isn't dark so can't workout what happened but anyone with a brain will work the process out. Also a couple of video's running another test infusion, all prototype work and final build of the Ezifold Cat is infused epoxy as will be the Tri folding system for our own boat, we are trialing many finish's with a hibuild sandable surface being the preference as seems to be producing the lightest laminate presently. The laminate in the test is twill carbon 4 layers of carbon uni and twill carbon. The test is with a reducing concave half mold mimicking a beam run, we can't see the sence in flat table test runs unless for a bulkhead or similar test laminate run as most infusing we undertake is convex or concave in shape so why not run the same in a test....

 

fruit bat rebuild

Hi everyone. Thought I'd let you I was getting on with the rebuild of my buc. Its getting very close now to being ready to get wet! Last week we painted the hulls so in my next break from work I'll be painting the decks and fitting it out, then on the next break it'll be hitting the water. I work week on, week off so I can get a pretty good crack at it if I get motivated. I didn't spend anywhere near enough time on the filling and fairing of the hulls so the finished paint job is less than perfect but i'm just glad its nearly all over and I can start to enjoy my boat again. Attached is a picture of how the boat is at the moment hanging from shed while it was getting painted. When I get home next week the paint will be fully cured and I'll drop her back on the trailer to complete the fitting out.

 

Your Bucc will look just fine when you have finished painting it.

Are you going to use water stays,? Your wood crossbeams appear to be a bit slim at the root ends, compared with beams on Samnz old green B24.

 

Yeah it'll have waterways. Those beams wouldn't be strong enough by themselves. It'll be setup exactly the same way as it was 7 years ago. I can't believe its been so long. One thing though I have found a bit of a stumbling block has been insurance. What are other Australian buc owners doing about insurance? It seems insurance companies have walked away from trimarans.

 

You may have to be just careful. I don't know any insurance companies who will insure mutihulls these days.
I know that when Bagatelle ran aground on the GBR and was written off the insurer had to pay out a motza to enable Lindsey Cummings to buy a new catamaran and continue the voyage. Payouts like that are enough to put any insurer off

 

Its a bit annoying really. Hopefully I can at least get third party just in case I have a bingle.

 

Nice milestone rcr
ours has starboard side main hull to finish strip of paint/fairing/highbuild primer then onto rebuild and refit, where did the beam design/scantling for your build come from or did you work it out yourself?
photo's posted to the usual spot http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.370037386402909.84395.212821925457790&type=1

 

Lookin' Good OTB.

 

OTB I wouldn't have a clue who designed those beams. The boat was definitely built with them originally though. From the work I've done its pretty obvious it never had alloy beams to begin with. I'm not sure why they went down the timber beam path either. They are quite heavy (I reckon equivalent to alloy) and they still need the water stays so I can't really see a benefit to them. Only reason I rebuilt them instead of changing to alloy was that even though there was a lot work to rebuild them, the modifications I would've had to make to the boat to accept alloy beams would've meant that I may not have even started the rebuild. The simplicity of these boats is awesome. Countless times I was faced with the issue of rot or needing to put a hole in the boat for various reasons and at first I was really hesitant about doing it but after I'd cut out the rot or the hole I'd realise that it was actually quite simple to fix and away I'd go.