Greetings Group I have been reading for a few weeks and I really appreciate the DIY focus. My wife and I are pondering building a sailboat over the next ...
My understanding is that 'origami' is the Japanese art of folding paper into figures like birds and such. I believe the 'origami' method of boat building is...
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dear Doug there are very few plans available for metal cats and many designers /retailers of plans will ridicule any enquiry for steel plans , aluminium has...
Hi Doug , hi Mike , see the 2 pics posted in the new MonoCat2 Folder in Files . http://www.abmarine.fr sure is a fine Link to see some good plan rendering ,...
Hi Denis , have a look at : http://www.antoine-islands.com/anglais/index.htm sure no worries on that pretty Aluminum Cat :-) All one needs is a good designer...
Hi Doug , I realy could not resist to post your site here : http://www.submarineboat.com/ what a Sub !!! :-) , can I come for some underwater exploring ?? I...
... I think you will find that most designers think aluminum is too heavy for multihull vessels below 50' and I don't think you will find any plans for a 40'...
Thanks y'all There is a lot of review and think about in your replies. So the origami method cannot or has not been applied to catamarans? They all seem to...
Doug, there is another cat you might want to check out: The french singer Antoine is cruising and living on a Joubert designed Alloy cat, built in strongal by...
Thank you Gerd Your boat is looking good. Origami may not lend itself well to cats, but I sure like the idea of cutting and welding over glueing. Any idea...
Years ago i gave considerable thought to how to put a hot tub on a reasonably sized boat. Filling up the dinghy seems a good place to start however out of the...
... cats, but I ... as to how ... Should be no problem really. You could do some basic cardboard modelling to find out. I think you will find different...
Hi Gerd, I'm not after the boat faster then other boats of the same LOA. I'm trying to design boat which would be as fast as possible for the money. One with a...
dear doug the only steel cat 12 meter i read about is boden cat s austraila who admit 7 knots is max and do not send money for study plans to these people ,...
dear seer in the past few weeks a little lady called ellen mc arthur tied up at the quayside in falmouth in a cat after beating the solo round the world...
Congralutalations Alex !!!! for your patience :-) hard work , and making this Group a fine place to Lurk anytime . When is the Video be finished ??? Count me...
With you all the way, Milan, it shows that you been working on that for a long time - although some details remain open for discussion, the overall concept...
concerning ellen: 1 - that was not a cat, but a trimaran 2 - if you're racing in the southern oceans, and it's not terribly uncomfortable, then you are...
Thanks Seer, you make a lot of good points and reinforce one of the reasons I'd like to build from aluminum and not glass. I've read a lot of post about why...
Thanks Gerd, I shall certainly keep you informed, and I shall appreciate critic and advises. "…it wil clearly pinpoint the differences between types of...
Thanks for posting that , Old Ben!!! ;-) It's great, it's beautiful and it's done by a bunch of old buggers like us except that they were much better at...
"she was asked what was it like and she said it was like doing 40 mph cross country on the roof of a 4x4 for seventy days and nights " Not sure if you mean to...
Gerd, For a species that can build ships to sail to other worlds and indeed outside of our own solar system, I have no doubt that a 'seaworthy' as you put it...
I found a website in Polish which shows some hull models made from Origami techniques. He mentions the origamiboats group in his text, and also made a model...
