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Re: Review: Bill Hamm's Test Boat.
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 7/29/2008, 1:56 am
In Response To: Re: Review: Bill Hamm's Test Boat. (John Monroe)

: Bill it's not hard for me to get confused. I was thinking you were using a
: boat platform and adding different hull shaping pieces to it to find the
: perfect cat hull shape, and also using an (A) frame mast to hold a wing
: sail. I can't remember you posting pictures Bill but I think yours would
: be some of the more interesting ones.

: John

Hi John,

The cat is a little different , also not real sure how it's gonna work, looks right now like a really skinny and really deep kayak. It's an assymetrical hull catamaran, the insides are nearly flat with 95% of the hull shape on the outsides only. Building it with the two flat sides against each other so it looks skinny :)

There's almost no deck on this thing, so sailing it would require a redesign.

I know I'm being bad with the pictures, I'll get them posted this week sometime. Today was spent building a scarfing jig for the table saw, lots of stringers on this boat, so hand cut scarves wouldn't be fun (well probably would be fun, but slow). Tomorrow I hope to cut all the scarfs (scarves?) and epoxy them. They should sit for a couple days to allow the epoxy to gain some strength so maybe Wednesday I can play with pictures.

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Review: Bill Hamm's Test Boat.
John Monroe -- 7/27/2008, 5:11 am
Re: Review: Bill Hamm's Test Boat.
Bill Hamm -- 7/27/2008, 4:09 pm
Re: Review: Bill Hamm's Test Boat.
John Monroe -- 7/28/2008, 3:40 am
Re: Review: Bill Hamm's Test Boat.
Bill Hamm -- 7/29/2008, 1:56 am