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Chris Ostlind presents a catamaran design for plywood stitch and glue construction that continues the Manu Kai theme.
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. Page 1 of 1 pages |
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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, 