It was Superbowl weekend 05 when I laid up the hull halves. Last weekend she got paint.

Maiden voyage scheduled for Saturday.

Bill

pic 2

Very nice!

pic 3

her home

Thanks Pete.

I hate to be the one to break this to you, but I feel the need to inform you that you put your hulls on upside down :P

A-Cat porn . . .

I get that a lot

So you managed to resist the urge to cover her in chintz.....

VERY pretty as she is, I think

Bill:

That is a sweet looking boat.

Is this from the mold that is the "pass around"?
What are you using for a rig?
Have you figured out the total final costs?
When is the first race?

Later,
Dan

SWEEEEEETTT....That thang got a Hemi!?

Nice!

Me too! Now, when I see a Tornado, P19 or H20, I say it to them first!

Beautiful job, Bill! I just love the look!

Dan


This boat is made from a mold that Steve Clark and Dirk Kramers own. Its a Dirk Kramers design revision #17, so its a DK17. They were looking for a "big and tall" person's A cat and decided to design something with more volume. Even though the bows look like an A2 its got more volume in the bottom of the hulls for those of us who need more volume.
http://www.alinghi.com/en/alinghi/team/design/kramers/index.html

The molds are in RI at Steve's shop.
http://www.intcanoe.us/component/option,com_zoom/Itemid,26/catid,13/

I got a Hall mast, made to my weight and the bend charactoristics described by my sailmaker. Hall also specified the spread rake, and sweep and prebend.

The Bristol guys race every Tuesday, so if I dont have any major issues this weekend, I'll try to show up next Tuesday in Bristol.

Materials cost around $11k. Its hard to calculate the exact cost since I have a half a roll of carbon left and epoxy left over and other misc stuff.

The more important question is - whats it weigh?

Bill

I knew that from the pictures you probably did not know that yet. Thank you for all the info about it. Hope to hear about the Tues night race.

Later,
Dan

My spreadsheet says 68kg. My scale only goes up to 40kg, so I can't weigh everything together. I need to re-weigh all the parts and double check, but I'm pretty sure I'm 5kg under at least.

That is quite a testiment to your building ability! Congratulations!

Dan

Excellent job!
Congratulations!
Now I am really persuaded that the Balance A is an European built DK17!

Forgive me, but why it is valued so much to be THAT far underweight. All I can think if is that you've made a design error. Because those 5 kg of lead you'll have to hang of the platform will do a whole lot less for performance and feel of the boat then including those kg's in extra platform stiffness, stiffer beams, impact resistance, stiffer daggerboards, stiffer rudder setup, reinforced keel line or even heavier and cheaper components in the way of blocks and lines.

I never understood why some sailor pay top dollar to get special lightweight lines and blocks only to add a few kg of lead before racing.

Wouter