Duet launch

After lots of sweat,some blood and a few tears we are please to anounce the launch of our home Duet.

 

Congratulations neighbour!
What's the cruising speed at 3000 RPM?

 

Duet is very impressive indeed!
Is she your own design?
How long did it take to build her?
I know that the video covers most of Duet, but can you post some more photos please?
And what design is that neat garvey type tender on the stern?

 

BB, I am waiting for a Suzuki conponent and I will be able to provide more data once install, but when I did a dip test early in the year, I did 14.4 kn at WOT. Also I find out to my horror that she was down by the bow by 10 inches.

 

bajansailor
Thank you for your comment.
She start her life as a Skoota 36 but she was heavily modified by me as I din't agree with the designer vision. As a matter of fact, there isn't a single aspect of this design that i didn't modify even the hulls.
It took me 10 and half years but we have been living aboard on the hard for the past 3 and half years.
This was the biggest adventure of my life, I really enjoy the process.
I did start a Garvey design to be able to fit beetween the hulls, but I din't felt confident enough to complete the design so I adapted the Garvey 10" from Evan Gatehouse, to my profile lines and arrangements.
I will post more pics.

 

here is the a link to some photos of the boat still under construction.
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1...?key=RHlsa190V2dqeS03dGI4OW5HNTBUUDRrUU9PWWt3

 

And another link of dinghy and the hydraulic platform.
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1...?key=dk9BcHBGZmFNZDY0d1N1ejdGY2d5MmxFSTZjMTVn

 

Bravo Dinis!

or corajoso maybe...

what a great day

 

@fallguy feels your pain. My girl Serenity is down by the bow about the same, but she's a planing boat. As soon as we give her some power she pops up.

 

That’s a very nice cat!
I’d love to see some performance and fuel consumption data.
The bow down problem is a bummer, what does the designer say?
Was the build done in his specs, or is it just overloaded by the bows?

 

Thank you for the compliment.
I will provide performance and fuel consumption data once I have the necessary instrument.
I build this boat acoording to the design, albeit heavy. She was designed with the LCB 1.250 m aft of the LCG and the designer told me that he does that because " the majority of people puts more weight aft".
In my opinion, this is not a good situation, as moving weight fwd or aft is much easier when the boat is well trimed, then one just have to deal with sinkage.

I have to thanks Mr Rick Wellin from Metalboatkits.com for fixing this problem, designing the Boulbous Bow, which I did build in wood.

 

How did the bulbous bows work out ?
Were they able to recover trim at rest and underway?
Did they have other affects too?

 

The BB's is work well, it recover the trim at rest and underway. Next week, I will move the boat from where I am now and go to 40 NM cruise and I will be able to give you a better report on they perfomance.
By the way, at Half Load displacement, my WL is the same as the designed WL with Light Load displacement.

 

The boat looks great to my eye.

 

Thank you, means a lot to me.
I will see you some time in PT.