America to Japan Crossing - The Trimaran |
| Choosing Design - Step 1 |
| Design Requirements |
| 1) |
Powered by Sail |
| 2) |
Space for 2 people and one dog to live, Space for 2 guests to attend different legs of the journey. For 2 - 4 short stay visitors. |
| 3) |
Designer willing to help with the project and is informative as to the process of building a boat (Since Miki and I have never taken on a boat building project before this) |
| 4) |
Construction and size of the boat will be limited to the area in the backyard of our house |
| 5) |
Boat will be of utilitarian design and completable by March or April 2003 (We have extended this to a dropdead date of June, 30 2003 to leave on Nov 2003 after that date we will be leaving Nov 15, 2004) . We understand the tradeoff will be a limited amount of wood working, and carpentry will be kept to a minimum. |
| 6) |
Boat will meet requirements of long distance ocean travel. With the longest single possible leg of the journey being 45 days (the crossing from Japan back to Los Angeles). |
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| Design Chosen |
| 1) |
The design that we have chosen is the Kurt Hughs 37 foot flared hull trimaran. |
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| 2) |
Extend the design 2 feet to add some extra space.
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| 3) |
Move the cockpit sole up one foot and add a crawl space to connect the main cabin and aft berth.
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| 4) |
Increase the size of the shower/head to act as a giant wet area.
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| 5) |
Install a hatch above the front berth so people can access it from the wet area or just pop out the top.
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| 6) |
Change the center berth to a desk/navigation area
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| 7) |
Use one or two 9.9 hp outboards instead of an inboard. |
| 8) |
Install power generation equipment ( 8 solar cells mounted on the aft arms, 2 wind mills mounted on an aft frame )
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| 9) |
Build in a flammable storage area for 4, 40 lbs canisters of propane
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