Showing posts with label 106. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 106. Show all posts
Sunday, 9 April 2017
Barry is building a Proteus 106 kit set
This is a great value kit set to build your own multihull sail boat.
We sent the kit off by road only a few weeks back and just look at the progress a CNC cut kit gives the builder!
Words from Barry:
We sent the kit off by road only a few weeks back and just look at the progress a CNC cut kit gives the builder!
Words from Barry:
We’ve spent about 200 hours so far on the project. The set up took longer than I expected, but I tried to get all check measurements e.g. stem to opposite hull stern etc to within 2 to 3 mm of accuracy. I hope that this is ok,
Thursday, 30 March 2017
Proteus 106 cutting out the bulkheads
This was a few trial panels, you can see the tool required to cut the marine plywood free with.
The water line is marked on each bulkhead, the small holes are to enable you to line up the next panel
when a scarph joint is made, a small tight fitting dowel then keeps the panels in line.
Use the inside of the delta to find the exact position of the waterline.
Simple? we try to make it so!
Roy
The water line is marked on each bulkhead, the small holes are to enable you to line up the next panel
when a scarph joint is made, a small tight fitting dowel then keeps the panels in line.
Use the inside of the delta to find the exact position of the waterline.
Simple? we try to make it so!
Roy
Saturday, 25 March 2017
The Proteus 106 sailing catamaran has been re costed with surprising results!
We have been watching with ever larger eyes the rise in the cost of the BS1088 Okoume marine plywood, eventually we have reached the stage that the cost is what may be seen as too high?
Rick in Thailand sailing his own version of the Proteus 106, which has extended transoms with rudders under them.This boat was built from plans and not from a kit.
So we checked the prices and weights of the BS1088 Redwood plys, saw that price wise we were on a winner,then checked with various yacht designers and asked can we use the Redwood plys on their kits?
In the case of the Proteus 106 catamaran, Angelo Lavranos came back and told us that the plys he used for calculations were 10% heavier than the okoume marine, so the Redwood would be fine for his design.
Using a really sharp pencil we work out the plys only kit and with the MDF removable stations panels included, plus the CNC works required on all 121 panels, we can now offer the panels kit for just R98,000 plus Vat for local buyers.
There is no Vat on exports, allow U$9949 for the kit at todays exchange rate (17/09/2013)
Plans are extra and cost NZ$4300 which are supplied direct from the designer.
Roy
So we checked the prices and weights of the BS1088 Redwood plys, saw that price wise we were on a winner,then checked with various yacht designers and asked can we use the Redwood plys on their kits?
In the case of the Proteus 106 catamaran, Angelo Lavranos came back and told us that the plys he used for calculations were 10% heavier than the okoume marine, so the Redwood would be fine for his design.
Using a really sharp pencil we work out the plys only kit and with the MDF removable stations panels included, plus the CNC works required on all 121 panels, we can now offer the panels kit for just R98,000 plus Vat for local buyers.
There is no Vat on exports, allow U$9949 for the kit at todays exchange rate (17/09/2013)
Plans are extra and cost NZ$4300 which are supplied direct from the designer.
There is a highly skilled wooden boat builder here in Cape Town who has done costings to build this boat to an in the water price. let me know if you need his contact details, you could be on the water for less than you think!
Roy
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