The July/August Multihulls magazine contains and article on "Cat 2 Fold"
which is a 36' folding cat being build in New Zealand by Greg Martell
with Composite Boats Ltd. It's a Kurt Hughes design being build for Rafi
and Heidi Francke of Culver City, Ca. see:

http://www.cat2fold.com

http://www.compositeboats.com/index.php?page=image

The US patent number is 6546885 with site:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1
<http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PAL
L&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6546885.WKU.&OS=PN/6546885
&RS=PN/6546885>
&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6546885
.WKU.&OS=PN/6546885&RS=PN/6546885

I couldn't pull up the drawings today but the text discription is simple
enough to get an idea.

Hope this helps us get closer to a folding Harryproa.

Thanks Bob G.



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