Building Flip-Flops Catamaran

Wednesday, 6 May 2015

“Scrappy”

My boat building process was on hold for entire winter ‘cause it’s too cold and humid in my shed.

So I decided to jump onto dinghy build as some of DIY catamaran builders do.

Another reason for that was a bunch of “mystery foam” I’ve got from my supplier, Fiberglass Supplies at Burlington, WA (thanks Matthew and Hose!).

It turned out to be a remains of some 50 footer kit from some boat manufacturer. And a foam itself was 1.5” Dyvinicel H100 of some irregular shapes.

Which was an overkill for this project, but I’ve got it dirt cheap, so it worth to build a dinghy out of it.

It was obviously for me that this boat is gonna be a catamaran, the question was what design it will be.

At the end it turned out that it will be my own design again.

I played with some software to design a hull, got some overall dimensions.

And, here you are, I built a boat.

It’s not finished yet, unfortunately. I couldn’t sand it in my garage.

So I waited for some good weather to clean up the shell and make it ready for the final glassing.

There are some pictures of the building process.

Hatches are dry fitted for now.

Tuesday, 15 April 2014

I proceed with fitting aft saloon window and hatch flanges I built in my garage during off-season.
It will be total 5 of 18x18" (which I already bought) and 2 of 16x16" hatches (which I still have to buy).

View from cockpit

Saloon view

Roof support/Targa posts

Roof support structure is in progress now.
It was actually started last season (somewhere in January).
Then I took a break 'cause of cold/rainy weather.