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A robust beach charter suitable for half day excursions.
32ft Loa, 18ft beam, 5000lbs.
The final cutter rig was a 36ft mast on a pedestal. Standing rigging was 5/16" 1x19 galvanized on 1/2" galvanized turnbuckles.
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An aft an midsection before skinning with multiple layers of 1/8" plywood.
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The trampolines were always a hit with lounging charter passengers. The yellow square is the top of the 8' swing daggerboard.
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Interior of a hull
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Looking aft between the two hulls.
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The hulls were each built in three sections. These are the bows being transported to another assembly location.
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Bow sections at different stages of construction.
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The first mast was a 50 ft rotating wing. The wingmast ultimately proved unmanageable. In any kind of a good breeze the boat would sail at 4 kts with with all sails down. Any breeze made navigating in a marina or a narrow canal a challenge. At anchor, the boat would sail back and forth, sometimes sailing over the anchor.
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The 50' wing was replaced with a 36' aluminum mast from a marine salvage.
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The first mast.Internal halyards were run in PVC pipe.
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Korri Lampitt modeling for a brochure photo.
Foreground, the aluminum mast sat on a very robust stabilized aluminum I beam pedestal.
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Looking forward. Estero Bay, Fort Myers Florida.
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Chuck Lawson as hunky sailor. Brochure photo.
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View from the top of the 50' wing mast
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Framework for a midsection. In general the frame was a mold for the layers of 1/8" plywood skin.
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Looking through and unfinished bowel section. Storage compartments and beyond that filled with styrofoam.
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This is an aft section upside down. Styrofoam flotation was built into aft and bow sections.
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The bows were sculpted with multiple layers, strips of 1/8" plywood.
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Bow sections
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First layers of 1/8" strips on the bow.
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An aft section.
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