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Posted: 03/14/06 | Contributions
Chris Ostlind presents a catamaran design for plywood stitch and glue construction that continues the Manu Kai theme.

Just a few months back, our Proafile host, Michael Schacht, introduced a set of concept illustrations for a very nice, 23' Hawaiian flavored catamaran called, Manu Kai.

Michael's vision was at once elegant in the manner in which it honored traditionally styled Hawaiian sailing vessels and it provided a set of unique solutions for how to blend the traditional with the modern in boat design.

Below the text of the article in the section for comments was a note from the author about the difficulties of designing this type of hull for a plywood build style. Since I design a lot of boats for stitch and glue plywood construction, I was immediately curious as to just how far down the path of the Manu Kai I could actually go with a possible design from that material/technique.

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