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The Concept « Compaxboats
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Designing and Building a Microcruiser
The Concept
One step closer – to being far far away🙂
I live in Pretoria, South Africa and I am a part-time boat designer and builder. I prefer epoxy and fiberglass over marine ply, with carbon fibre and aramid / kevlar reinforcing. I am now building a 3m (10 foot) ocean going yacht.
Manie HJ Botha
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The Concept
One step closer – to being far far away🙂
I live in Pretoria, South Africa and I am a part-time boat designer and builder. I prefer epoxy and fiberglass over marine ply, with carbon fibre and aramid / kevlar reinforcing. I am now building a 3m (10 foot) ocean going yacht.
Manie HJ Botha
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Hallo Manie,
Dit is toeval, ons dink soortvan dieselfde oor ‘n paar dinge.
Ek bly ook in Centurion, en het lank gelede bote gebou vir ‘n lewe, onder andere ‘n ontwerp van Finot genaamd die South 35. Ons het ook ‘n 38, 43 en 47 gebou, almal vacuum-bagged epoksies, gekuur en met koolstof en kevlar strukturele komponente onder andere soos roere, kiele, maste, booms en boegspriete.
Ek speel rond met ontwerp in plywood, en daar staan ‘n 4×8 voet CNC router in my werkswinkel wat ek eintlik spesifiek gemaak het om bote mee te bou. My spesialiteit is saamgestelde materiale, ek werk hier in Lyttelton voltyds daarmee.
Groete,
Dries Laas
082 822 5015
Hi Manie,
Dit smaak my ons almal wat ver van die see af is wil bote bou! Ek woon in Randburg. Ek kyk op die oomblik na die Roberto Barros ontwerpe. Dit lyk of sy planne vir dom, onhandige ouens soos ek is! Ek kyk veral na sy 28’Multichine. Wat dink jy daarvan? Miskien kan ek vir Dries vra om die bulkheads te sny met sy CNC router.
Waar kry mens die beste pryse op marine ply,epoxy en fiberglass?
Groete,
Henry Marais
082 562 6192
Henry ek moet jou om verskoning vra dat ek nou eers skryf
ek pos gereeld op Boatdesign.net en sal nou begin om my “blog” meer te geruik
skryf vir my op
monica@mweb.co.za
ek is 1 Jan terug en sal jou met plesier help
Hallo, I saw you are interested to contact me. Here I am and my adresses. Don’t hesitate to ask any questions. Unfortunately have no time to translate all my blog. It’s already hard work to keep it in one language.
I’m happy to see there are lots of people around they love pure sailing.
Best regards, stefano
Hi, my name is Mariano and Im from Brasil. Im olso an amateur boat builder. I so your “little CRUISING cat” at boatdesign.net and love it. I was wondweing if there is any chances for yuo to send my some construction plans of it, because I wil reali fan to tray and built one for my self…
My best regards to and thanks.
Mariano
Mariano I have done the basic design and will get it to you. Do you have CAD, it is not important but can help. I will mail JPeg files anyway. Regards Manie.
Hi, Manie.
I have CAD and will ve greathful of enithing you can send me.
Regards, Mariano
Mariano go here
https://www.boatdesign.net/forums/boat-building/minicat-5-a-24096-2.html#post359667
hope you come right – best of luck
please reply at BoatDesign.net because that is the only place I can post DXF
Cheers
Manie
Hi Manie,
Toevallig op jou interessante web site afgekom.
Ek help vir SA Birdlife om ‘n “floating hide ” te ontwerp ( eks ‘n strukturele ingenieur en weet niks van bote af nie !! ) vir observasie en fotografie by die vlamink eilande ,Kamfersdam., KImberley.
Dis basies ‘n ‘huis’ op ‘n platform op half dromme , wat twee persone moet huisves en toerusting .
My probleem kom in om die ding aan te dryf.Dit moet baie stadig wees,en geruisloos ( elektriese motors ) en ook rudders he om te maneauver ( voorentoe ,agtertoe,sywaarts ).
Sal jy my kan raad gee oor die aandrywingsstelsel?
Enige hulp of raad sal waardeer word !
Jy kan my epos.
Baie dankie en groete,
Arno Ellmer
If I may butt in here.. Arno, you might want to look at https://www.electricboats.co.za
Peter Jacops is the guy to talk to ( p dot jacops at gmail dot com )
These are apparently proper “outboards” and not just electric trolling motors.
Hi Manie we are now 23 months into the wharram and have around 3 months left all things being equal.Go to Wharram builders and friends “chris Bretter” Regards Chris chris@harley-durban.co.za
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Sorry I don’t have proper plans, my drawings are very basic only intended for personal use. I basically did my own version of the Jarcat. There is lots of info on the internet, it’s a basic boat that you can easily copy and build yourself. I built those 2 hulls out of 9mm marine ply and it worked fantastically well. The man I built the hulls for never finished the boat, which is unfortunate. My method of building has proved itself and I am building the new TEN the same way. You can easily copy my design and build method,s there is plenty of info on the internet and Youtube. Here are some good links.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jarcat-Catamarans/224498344251339
https://jarcatmarine.com/
https://www.google.co.za/search?q=jarcat+5&rlz=1C2GGGE_enZA379&biw=1366&bih=681&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=orFyVLyjLoPuaJuHgcAF&ved=0CBsQsAQ