Home built Catamaran 

As a professional boat builder (back in the day) not only do I see your hard work, I feel your pain. People ask me if I’ll ever build again and the answer is a resounding “hell no”. I just finished my probably last project for my life. At 65 years old I just finished a complete refit of my 50 Lien Hwa trawler. To be clear what that means is it was a 10 month, 8 to 12 hour days, six days a week slog. Is it beautiful, yes. But honestly...I’m done. Now I plan to spend the rest of my able years cruising. Wish me luck and a long life. Thanks for sharing your videos.

Women like this are so rare. Love seeing couples do these projects together. Great job you two!

Congratulations! Excellent work

That looks like a Piver design, Dad and I built a 50' Norm Cross design Tri back in the 70's in El Cajon

I love it, she’s working her tail end off on the bulk heads and it says “we” your one heck of a worker lady !

Love it , I felt your pain , I hate removing Peel ply and vac media. So hard! Cheers warren

She's a beautiful craft

She looks HUGE for a 34 footer! Well done!

Vacuum Infustion system...👍👍👍

Desiree is Amazing! She did all the hard work!

Very nice Cat ... If you put a mast/boom and sails on her .. That will help cut the cost of fuel consumption .. Or it would have .. 😀

Beautiful boat with a job well done, I’m envious now, lol. But I truly wish y’all the best in your journeys, on the boat and with each other.

Keep up the good work.Happy sailing.

Super work! Thanks for share. I think I just stumbled upon my almost ideal boat!

Very impressive! Though your hope of sailing in the Bahamas this summer may be ambitious given Cov19. Very best of luck to you - that's a lot of hard work!

Wow, truly amazing, and it looks beautiful in the water👍👍

Nice one I like it

Great job. A lot of boat for 34 ft , nicely built and designed too. Best of luck to you , I hope you have many great adventures.

Awesome boat! Did y’all follow a specific boat plan? What kind of speed do yall see with the pair of 60’s?

Absolutely amazing. Love it.

Working those little 60s hard pretty big boat I think you would have got better fuel efficiency going bigger

So it’s basically just cheap thin wood covered in fiberglass and foam to float? How strong are these things then are they capable of hitting offshore big waves high winds without tearing apart

WOW! What a build. Where did you learn to do the foam injection? Those engines look lie real beasts. Did you ever consider an electric solution and a solar canopy? I'm guessing not, as it looks like Mike likes speed.

I love it! Vacuum formed fibreglass foam composite? Sorry my knowledge is low on this. Is this state of the art for boat building? Did you end up with a lighter and stronger hull than a wood/fibreglass overlay? Thanks! Fair winds and following seas!

Wow epic !!! 😳😳

Could you tell me why did you sandwich foam between the two pieces of fiberglass?

Inspirational!!

Top bravo :)

Wow it turned out beautiful, I didn’t even know you could make your own boat like this… Is this the boat you road the hurricane out in?

great work, wish I had learned infusion, tired of wet bagging, that bulkhead in the video looked like stock flat panel was a big square

You are amazing

can i ask how much the build cost was and if you were to guess the cost of making a 22ft version how much would it be? Thanks.

Just read more comments. What did it cost for materials, please?

great job! Did you have any experience with vacuum infusion prior to this boat build? I love this design and I am contemplating building it.

Nice work you two that's a major undertaking. Hey we're we're you anchored? Just curious.

Mind me asking about what was the budget for this boat ..?

interesting boat and story is there boat plans available somewhere, this would suit us only thing, we would like a full solar powered boat

Epic!!!Great. I want also build cat , but how, where ???Maybe , you have a rights to sell plans?

What design is this cat. Also pretty simple mould build ... Is there a specific name to the infusion technique you uses here. It looked rather painless

Where you get the plans?

Where did you get the plans? Please.

Do both hulls come off one mold ?

Dezy, Would you have any interest in passing-on, or selling, your molds? I'm not looking to cut Richard out of license & plan fees. My utopian thought has been a set of "community molds" available to any builder, with the custody controlled by/of (at least paperwork/legal if not physical) Richard. Fwiw I've personal and other options for dry secure storage 90 minutes outside of downtown Chicago in the middle of a booming wharehouse truck-shipping lane(SE, WI). That'd make it much more likely for those [of us] to build what we ultimately want instead of the Skoota 30. We'd somehow make you whole on your cost... Lloyd.

no beams?

Did y’all need a special kind of permit to haul that boat?

i love women who work. rare they are!

Home built LoL. Do you live in a warehouse?

Bb

home built my ass unless you live in a shipyard

Why not just glue 2 sail boats together ?