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Do you think this hull would be built using the sticth and glue method that the kayak kits use?


The 5-chined wave-piercer will be "stitch and glue" for certain if building only 1 boat.

What I'm trying to do it design it in such way that only 3 joints need to be stitched-and-glued with the remaining 2 joint being a simple screw and glue after routing the joint rod to the right angle.

And if more then one boat is made by a builing group a joint rod can be made for all joints allow all additional hulls to be simply "screw and glue". This should save time. Another idea I have it to have one guy build a prototype and make an angle tool of this hull for all joints and have him sell routed joints rods for all chines to other builders. This would allow all other builders to save time and would recoperate the cost of the prototype. Definately a win-win situation.

I hope this answers your question, Tim.


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It's supposed to be very easy but I have not tried it yet. Maybe, once the design is finalized, we could get one of the large kit kayak companies to put together a hull kit with all the wood and precut panels? http://www.clcboats.com/boats/sharpie.php


That is an excellent idea Tim.

The already offer another multihull, the "Pacific Proa" http://www.clcboats.com/boats/pacificproa.php

I think I will contact them after the design is finished and sell these plans through them.


Wouter


Having attended a seminar on stitch and glue building by Chris, I can tell you he is multihull fan. The Proa design is very interesting, and I had asked him if he would ever consider a kit or plans for another multi (I was thinking of a cat based on the basics of the Proa main hull). He didn't rule it out, but had nothing planned, as something like that might be bigger than a practical kit. This, however, may just be the thing that gets their interest. If nothing else they may be willing to share some tips that would help the design be a success from a mass building sense.

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