New stapler gun

Just had to try the new stapler. It seems to do the job attaching strip plank to the frame. Rolf also received the new saw blade at last, so we can start cutting planks into the desired thickness. We also managed to attach profiles to the work bench. Now, everything looks bright for the future. Knock on wood!

Generating traffic

Happy to see that so many of you, from all over the world, find this page. We will try to describe how we build three 16 foot catamarans. Perhaps this will motivate others to build as well? Remember to bookmark this page and come back often. Site will be updated on a regular base and perhaps evolve into a good resource for all who wants to build or sail a Formula 16 catamaran.
Enjoy!

Getting stuff done..

At last some progress. We now have all stations cut and faired, including a notch for the gunwhale. We even got the stations set up roughly and put on a strip. Looks quite fair even without fiddling with the stations. Hopefully most stations will fit right in.
Today we also plotted the station missing from the full size plans Phill supplied. X-Y coordinates and fairing the station afterwards takes time. Note to self: Never start building from a table of offsets, if time is a concern!
To get some more progress and get to the fun part, stripping, we are going to do two sessions a week, for some time. Next time, we will set up the stations properly, and hopefully be ready to put on the first strips next week (just need to cut them first. Two weeks soon, since the sawblade was ordered, and it's still in the mail)!

We began talking about the schedule today, and we migh look at getting some ply for the decks, just to save time from strip planking the decks. Something to concider..

More work on the table, stations etc.

Last wednesday we put feet on the bulding table and leveled it, did some tuning on the stations and other small things that need to be done but which dont show up.
We have still not got the ripping blade for our saw, now over a week since it was ordered! The tracking number claim the parcel is in Molde, so there is hope tough.

Omar showed up with some pretty fancy gear. He even had a "quick draw" holster for his battery powered screwdriver!








Frode, and our snuffer MK-1. Jesus we have come a long way since those days!








Nothing sailing related, but Omar found a set of old standard issue sunglasses for winter/mountain use in my workroom. Since he had to try them on, I had to put the picture of him on the internet..


As you understand, there's not much cool to show from last weeks building session. We had progress, but shooting these photos was the most fun part.

Ripping plywood and cleaning up..

This wednesday was lost to other activites. We cleared out no less than six sacks of firewood from leftovers and fitted decks to a kayak. This kayak is a ply kayak, done in construction grade ply. When putting on the foredeck, which have quite some curve, the ply actually ripped apart from the load! Must have been a bad spot in the ply, at least I hope so. I will definately put a layer of glass on the deck!
Next week we will rip materials for at least one boat. A saw blade for ripping is on order (not much to choose from locally).