AN OFFER TOO GOOD NOT TO CONSIDER

 AN OFFER TOO GOOD NOT TO CONSIDER

Greetings all. My apologies for having been terribly slow in getting this out. Computer and Health problems. Limping along....but aaaaanyway.... Welcome to all the new members - glad to see new neighbors......aaaaand....

 

Got an e from a fellow in Australia who happens to be a pretty talented boat designer, computer programmer and all around stellar fellow I am proud to call friend. The following is a paragraph I've just got to share with the rest of the group. This might be an offer "too good to refuse" - or at least consider deeply if you've got the wantas for a summer project. If I wasn't up to my little flat butt in barking alligators I would probably start ordering plywood this weekend. Looks like a great catamaran design, an opportunity for fame and fortune and the chance to feed the greed monster to boot.

 

If you look in the subjects list of the WBB site you'll see a "HOT CHILI" folder there with some sketches and some build notes from Jeff's stash, per his permission to post the offer to the Wooden Boat Builder membership.

 

Excerpt from e-mail from Jeff Gilbert, Designer:

 

"while I was away in Tasmania this summer the Hot Chili prototype project in Adelaide, instead of being launched came to a sudden halt...So I'd very much like a sailing Chili scooting about with attendant photos. What I've decided to do is offer a reward - a 200% refund for the first Chili to hit the water with a write-up and sailing photos. That means a full refund of the plan price and the same again, which means $200.00. For this I need a few dated launch and under sail photos of a bona fide (full size {ed}) non-cardboard cutout Hot Chili containing people and/or dogs. Sky hooks, towropes and Rhino drawings floating at the top of Niagra Falls are right out. This should be pretty fair as no one has started yet, or if they have they haven't mentioned it..."

 

Cheers,

Jeff Gilbert

 

 

 

Hot Chili Plans and photos

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/r/designs/gilbert/hotchili/hc.htm

Forum

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/r/forum.htm

Designs

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/designs.htm

Dreamboats

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/r/columns.htm

Alleycat 20ft mini Liveaboard.

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/r/designs/gilbert/alley/cat.htm

Gumboots fast simple 31ft Ocean Cat

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/designs/gilbert/gumboots/index.htm

Cartaphylla 22ft 8 inch Ocean Schooner

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/designs/gilbert/cartaphylla/index.htm

Squeezebox liferaft

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/columns/dreamboats/squezebox.htm

http://www.cfproductions.com/castcrew/alanshaklee/boat.htm

Design Philosophy (old)

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/designs/gilbert/Ketchup/designs.htm

Other people

PVC/Wood laminate mast...how to build

http://catalog.com/bobpone/coldmoulded.htm

Telescoping flagpoles ...

http://www.dcmfg.com/Flagpole.html

http://www.boatdesign.net/articles/mast-materials/index.htm