svmegatron
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What would you think of building such a picnic/weekender cat out of the polycore material? ....(a polypropylene honeycomb/epoxy) as utilized on this 12M Solitary Island catamaran.
http://www.australiancompositepanels.com.au/index.htm
...:idea: In fact we might be able to turn one of these sailing designs into a power cat design something like the picnic cat I posted. I'm already talking with these fellows about a 'aftmast version' of one of their cats for an American client.
That looks *really* cool. I am not sure about building the entire boat myself, and I'm sort of hoping for something smaller (I know the M36 is not at all smaller, but my ideal size is 26-28 feet) but a kit makes it seem less daunting.
Right now the top spot on the "boats I'd have to build from scratch" list (vs. the "boats that might be able to be converted" that I started this thread with) is Richard Woods' Skoota 26 (seen at the bottom of this page: http://www.sailingcatamarans.com/skootas.htm ) I've corresponded with Mr. Woods and I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the design, but as I mentioned, the idea of building (or paying someone else to build) the entire boat from scratch is pretty daunting.


