For those of you who have dreamed of building your own boat I think our method of building will be of interest to you. A competitive A can be built by this method and if done correctly will yield a boat that is as strong and stiff as anything out there and under weight. If you are familiar with strip planking canoes read on, because that is how we built three A boats in the summer of '07, and the third one weighed only 150 lbs. In order to help everyone with the "hard" parts we have come up with a "kit" idea. The concept allows a person to pick out the parts of this that he feels capable of doing and getting help with the rest. Fist you should read the boat building articles on this site. Then remember, you need no autoclave, no vacuum bag, no resin infusion, no prepreg, and no solid surfaced mold to laminate into. What you do need is patience, attention to detail, and a knowledge of working with epoxy resins. What we can offer you is a design that has been converted into a bunch of female building frames for the hulls. We can even take your own design and convert it into these building frames. These frames will give you the "mold" to strip-plank foam strips into. We can also deliver a CNC cut pattern that aligns the two hulls when cross beams are added. We can also supply daggerboards and rudder blanks from our CNC machined model that are outstanding in performance and less than 3lbs. each. A list of our suppliers for building materials is also available, and you will get all the instructional help you need. The purpose of making this all available is to encourage the development of the best single-handed catamaran out there and get you into the basement or garage mixing glue. Cal Fuller (Lake Hopatcong)got me going and we're just passing it on.
