Team Seacats

Is alive and well! I’ve spent the last couple of weeks getting my shop back in order as I had let things slide for a while and the shop was practically unusable. I threw away a lot of unneeded things, fixed broken items, and reorganized a lot. Not only can I get to my mini-bathroom in the shop, but nothing leaks anymore either! So now, the one meter project can get back underway.

We have a new hull shape that’s much narrower and a lot more traditional on the underwater surface. Neville built the plug using a strip-plank method from shadow drawings I generated from some 3D design software. I’ll put up a link soon to the 3D drawing of what this boat will become.

I hope to get the plug faired today and maybe even get a coat of primer on it. Because the bow is so flat and narrow, I’m going to mold this boat in halves – “clamshell” style (like typical modern catamaran hull construction). This should provide a very strong hull as the deck will be molded in place. We also have some other ideas how to get some advantages out of this construction method…but more on that later – I’m not telling all our secrets just yet!

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