Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Strike One


Appearances tho' can be deceptive, and the advantage of building mock-ups and wheeling them out for photographs in the northwest of England is that it's often wet or windy, and usually both.

And this is where it literally falls down, and when its windmilling propeller strikes the ground. Still wanting it centre-stage I call my old friend Pythagoras, who tells me that broadly speaking 22" props need a 30" beam to launch from the jetty... which remains on the to-do list.

Whereas the catamaran, besides its many other practicalities, need only be around 24" wide given a little clearance between the two propellers at the rear.

Much then as we appreciate it as a download, we'll set our shoulders to the propeller disk in '25 and resume work on the cat.

Colin will tho' be autographing quality prints at Coniston on New Years Day.*

* He's lying.