[MHml] Coastal Cruising small cat

[Dan Frenette]

Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with the L7 other than knowing Mike for 
many years.

If you have lesser building skills or time look at the L7 kits. Mike has 
a strong understanding of material that are right for building a good 
boat. I've raced the L7s and can tell you if you watch the weight they 
are very fast for their size.

They don't fold they slide together. Uses pultruded fiberglass cross arm 
beam. The pan is solid fiberglass with the sides being plywood. This 
means no wood rot problems from going aground. The thing about core 
material below the water line is it all seems to soak up water so if the 
boat is going to stay in the water solid fiberglass isn't going to weigh 
that much more. Besides it's not that much of the hull.

If I didn't own a boat this would be one of my first choices.

Dan Frenette

keldewi at aol.com wrote:
> For me not having great boat buliding skills or maybe the confidence to 
> tackle a complex building project the Wharram article was good to read. 
> It does spark a possibilty! :) 
>  
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rsirfj at shaw.ca
> To: multihulls at steamradio.com
> Sent: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:02 AM
> Subject: Re: [MHml] Coastal Cruising small cat
> 
> At 04:51 AM 12/21/06, you wrote:
>>To be fair they are covering a Wharram build at the moment.
> 
>          That is why I said modern. I find it hard to understand why 
> a two issue article on building a Wharram 24 has found itself  in MM. 
> Not to knock that boat, after all one has sailed around the world, 
> which is more than I have done, but it is a very old design and very 
> simple to build so one would think that there are different, newer 
> and perhaps more complex small multihull designs more worthy of being 
> featured. Charles must have his reasons I guess.
> 
>snip...