Hey ! I learned to lighten up now and then, although that feels like hard work to me.





Well in my case, the basic concept is finished as well as most of the specs and building solutions. I have a basic daggerboardless deep-V hull design that can be homebuild out of ply or flat panels of glassed over foam. Costs and weights are all narrowed down to about 15 % uncertainty level. All that is not the problem at this time. Even the prototyping is not an issue. I have a volunteer who has done two ply boats already who is willing to do it. Personally I'd like someone to work on tricking out the hulls in the looks department some more because I'm not the most skilled at that as I sufficient experience in how ply bends and deforms.

The real problem at this time is that I need to go at it alone as all persons associated with the F12 have each gone seperate routes. At this time I can't personally justify the expense and time to thoroughly test a prototype and bring it to market. At this time I haven't even got the money to pick up the prototype from the guy who is willing to build it for me.

Maybe next year or the year after that. The concept is sound and I know it will work as the new features (for a cat) have been used extensively in landyachting. And of course the engineering math I've done confirm this experience in numbers.

Basically, We're (or I'm ) not that far off, we (I) just hit a key obstacle that is called lack of funds.

Wouter