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Skin-on-Frame: Sea Sled catamaran prototype *LINK*
By:Carl Delo
Date: 7/1/2008, 11:36 pm

Work is progressing (slowly) on my SOF catamaran rescue/escort kayak. Every step seems to entail a half dozen more design decisions, but hey, I guess that's the name of the game. I took the model with me to HRGF this past weekend and received a lot of nice comments that gave me renewed vigor to tackle my first trip into the land of epoxy - so far, so good.

At this point, I plan to epoxy coat all the individual pieces, assemble the frame with screws only, cover it with a temporary skin and see how it floats. I attached a link to some photos of the build so far - some details have already been changed from what is shown (e.g. I will use cedar where poplar is shown in the photos). Thanks to all here who've helped out so far, I appreciate it (especially Bill Hamm who is also working on a cat kayak). Also, thanks are due Ross Leidy - I fooled his Kayak Foundry into designing a catamaran (sort of) and am using the half bulkhead printouts to good effect.

Sea Sled prototype construction

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Skin-on-Frame: Sea Sled catamaran prototype *LINK*
Carl Delo -- 7/1/2008, 11:36 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Sled catamaran prototype
Bill Hamm -- 7/3/2008, 1:30 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Sled catamaran prototype *Pic*
Carl Delo -- 7/3/2008, 8:47 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Sled catamaran prototype
Bill Hamm -- 7/3/2008, 9:38 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Sled catamaran prototype *LINK*
Carl Delo -- 7/3/2008, 8:34 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/3/2008, 9:43 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/2/2008, 1:31 am
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Etienne Muller -- 7/2/2008, 6:35 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/3/2008, 1:58 am
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Etienne Muller -- 7/3/2008, 9:19 am
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Carl Delo -- 7/3/2008, 8:10 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/10/2008, 3:10 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Sled catamaran prototype *LINK*
Carl Delo -- 7/10/2008, 9:04 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Sled catamaran prototype
Bill Hamm -- 7/11/2008, 10:04 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Sled catamaran prototype *Pic*
Carl Delo -- 7/11/2008, 10:53 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/11/2008, 11:28 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/21/2008, 1:38 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Sled catamaran prototype *LINK* *Pic*
Carl Delo -- 7/22/2008, 10:39 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/23/2008, 9:53 am
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Carl Delo -- 7/23/2008, 10:20 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/24/2008, 3:04 pm
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Carl Delo -- 7/24/2008, 11:41 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/25/2008, 12:21 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/26/2008, 2:07 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Sled catamaran prototype *LINK*
Carl Delo -- 7/27/2008, 11:45 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/29/2008, 4:26 pm
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Carl Delo -- 7/29/2008, 4:48 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/31/2008, 9:00 am
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Carl Delo -- 7/31/2008, 9:36 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/31/2008, 6:55 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 8/4/2008, 12:53 am
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Bill Hamm -- 8/6/2008, 3:52 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/31/2008, 12:39 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Sled catamaran prototype *Pic*
Carl Delo -- 8/1/2008, 12:40 am
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Pablo -- 9/26/2008, 3:14 pm
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Pablo -- 9/26/2008, 3:18 pm
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Carl Delo -- 9/27/2008, 11:17 am
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Bill Hamm -- 8/1/2008, 9:45 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/30/2008, 1:45 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/28/2008, 2:37 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/24/2008, 10:54 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/23/2008, 3:24 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/23/2008, 8:49 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/23/2008, 8:45 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/10/2008, 4:47 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/5/2008, 1:52 pm
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Carl Delo -- 7/5/2008, 6:54 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Sea Sled catamaran prototype
Bill Hamm -- 7/5/2008, 7:43 pm
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Carl Delo -- 7/5/2008, 11:38 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/7/2008, 6:55 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/8/2008, 5:57 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/6/2008, 2:10 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/5/2008, 7:39 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 7/4/2008, 4:53 pm
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Carl Delo -- 7/2/2008, 10:05 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/2/2008, 12:22 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/2/2008, 9:34 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/2/2008, 9:20 am