Sea Sled
Noah Thompson in New Zealand info@eastcapemarine.com asked me to post this:
I have an issue of " Motorboat" national trade journal dated June
1928. On the first page is an advert from "Sea Sled" and in the
advert is a power catamaran about 30 feet long doing about 30 knots
over some waves. Simply amazing.
Does anyone have any other photos or information on power cats from
this area? I would like to do a rendition of this fine looking cat.
Thanks,
Noah Thompson
East Cape Marine
http://www.eastcapemarine.com/
I have an issue of " Motorboat" national trade journal dated June
1928. On the first page is an advert from "Sea Sled" and in the
advert is a power catamaran about 30 feet long doing about 30 knots
over some waves. Simply amazing.
Is Sea Sled a catamaran or an inverted V?
There's a lot of conflicting information posted on the Web:
http://tinyurl.com/yopk34
--Georgs
Georgs Kolesnikovs
Power Catamaran World
http://www.powercatamaranworld.com
Hickman patented the sea sled hull and was I guess very demanding and
so never was produced. Did trials in WW2 with US Navy but again the
patent thing and they went with the PT hard chine hulls for patrol boats.
Was a company in FL that produced a FG version a few years ago after
patents had all expired but never caught on. By that time the Deep V
and multistep hulls were in production and it didn't have a performance
equal.
Anyone notice the "M" hull tested and used for stealth vessel by the
Navy Sort of quadramaran
Then the British have had a large 300 Power Tri going for several years now.
Georgs Kolesnikovs wrote:
Noah Thompson in New Zealand info@eastcapemarine.com asked me to post this:
I have an issue of " Motorboat" national trade journal dated June
1928. On the first page is an advert from "Sea Sled" and in the
advert is a power catamaran about 30 feet long doing about 30 knots
over some waves. Simply amazing.
Does anyone have any other photos or information on power cats from
this area? I would like to do a rendition of this fine looking cat.
Thanks,
Noah Thompson
East Cape Marine
http://www.eastcapemarine.com/
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From further investigation, It turns out the vessel I saw was an inverted V
designed by Hinkman. It was called "Model 28" built by Sea Sled in 1928.
It was by all accounts quite a good performing boat back in her day. They
mention that they were to labour intensive to build. The Model 28 came with
200 hp in a sedan top, and sold for $8,500 USD. I heard the Hinkman was
playing with Surface drives around this time, and this cat may have been
fitted with them. The performance of the engines and drives still pushed the
inverted V hull over 30 knots. Considering the weight of the timber planking
they used back then, and more so the weight of the engines, I think they did
a pretty good job to do over 30knots with 200hp in 1928.
Regards, Noah Thompson
www.eastcapemarine.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Georgs Kolesnikovs" georgs@powercatamaranworld.com
To: "Power Catamaran List" power-catamaran@lists.samurai.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 2:52 AM
Subject: Re: [PCW] Sea Sled
I have an issue of " Motorboat" national trade journal dated June
1928. On the first page is an advert from "Sea Sled" and in the
advert is a power catamaran about 30 feet long doing about 30 knots
over some waves. Simply amazing.
Is Sea Sled a catamaran or an inverted V?
There's a lot of conflicting information posted on the Web:
http://tinyurl.com/yopk34
--Georgs
Georgs Kolesnikovs
Power Catamaran World
http://www.powercatamaranworld.com
Power-Catamaran Mailing List
In the 1960's I was a licenced builder of Tornados. I used to buy my fittings
from a family by the name of Wiseman who lived in Kohimarama in Auckland. The
wisemans were well known in flying 18 circles but what was interesting was
that in the garage along side their house was a beautifully built double
diagonal timber construction Hickman Sea Sled!
I think that anybody who has had anything to do with the design and building
of sporting sailing cats has, at some time, put a big outboard on the back and
gone for it. . Back in the 60s we did it with Tornados and in the 70's we did
it with Great Barrier Expresses and now Reynolds are doing it with the
Reynolds 33. However making it commercially viable is a totally different
thing.
Regards,
Malcolm Tennant.
MALCOLM TENNANT MULTIHULL DESIGN LTD
PO Box 60513, Titirangi.
Waitakere 0642
NEW ZEALAND
Ph: +64 9 817 1988
e-mail: malcolm@tennantdesign.co.nz
www.tennantdesign.co.nz
www.catdesigners.com
So, Malcolm, are you confirming the Sea Sled was a bona fide catamaran hull?
Not a trick question. Just would like to know.
--Georgs
In the 1960's I was a licenced builder of Tornados. I used to buy my fittings
from a family by the name of Wiseman who lived in Kohimarama in Auckland. The
wisemans were well known in flying 18 circles but what was interesting was
that in the garage along side their house was a beautifully built double
diagonal timber construction Hickman Sea Sled!
I think that anybody who has had anything to do with the design and building
of sporting sailing cats has, at some time, put a big outboard on the back and
gone for it. . Back in the 60s we did it with Tornados and in the 70's we did
it with Great Barrier Expresses and now Reynolds are doing it with the
Reynolds 33. However making it commercially viable is a totally different
thing.
Regards,
Malcolm Tennant.
Or are you suggesting that the Hikman inverted V "model 28" is actually a
"sporting sailing cat hull" and they decided to fit large surface drives to
it because sailing was to slow?
Sorry just trying to translate your e-mail.
Regards,
Noah
----- Original Message -----
From: "Georgs Kolesnikovs" georgs@powercatamaranworld.com
To: "Power Catamaran List" power-catamaran@lists.samurai.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: [PCW] Sea Sled
So, Malcolm, are you confirming the Sea Sled was a bona fide catamaran
hull?
Not a trick question. Just would like to know.
--Georgs
In the 1960's I was a licenced builder of Tornados. I used to buy my
fittings
from a family by the name of Wiseman who lived in Kohimarama in Auckland.
The
wisemans were well known in flying 18 circles but what was interesting was
that in the garage along side their house was a beautifully built double
diagonal timber construction Hickman Sea Sled!
I think that anybody who has had anything to do with the design and
building
of sporting sailing cats has, at some time, put a big outboard on the back
and
gone for it. . Back in the 60s we did it with Tornados and in the 70's we
did
it with Great Barrier Expresses and now Reynolds are doing it with the
Reynolds 33. However making it commercially viable is a totally different
thing.
Regards,
Malcolm Tennant.
Power-Catamaran Mailing List
Don't know if Malcolm will agree but the transom of a sea sled did not
indicate 2 hulls was a single flat planing surface so would be a
inverted V not a cat. Like the tri hull runabouts of the 70-80s were
mono hulls not trimarans.
MHO
Georgs Kolesnikovs wrote:
So, Malcolm, are you confirming the Sea Sled was a bona fide catamaran hull?
Not a trick question. Just would like to know.
--Georgs
In the 1960's I was a licenced builder of Tornados. I used to buy my fittings
from a family by the name of Wiseman who lived in Kohimarama in Auckland. The
wisemans were well known in flying 18 circles but what was interesting was
that in the garage along side their house was a beautifully built double
diagonal timber construction Hickman Sea Sled!
I think that anybody who has had anything to do with the design and building
of sporting sailing cats has, at some time, put a big outboard on the back and
gone for it. . Back in the 60s we did it with Tornados and in the 70's we did
it with Great Barrier Expresses and now Reynolds are doing it with the
Reynolds 33. However making it commercially viable is a totally different
thing.
Regards,
Malcolm Tennant.
Power-Catamaran Mailing List
--
Live Long and Prosper
Capt. Len Susman, retired
trikini23@trikini.com
After Dec. 13,2007
Email : trikini2007@comcast.net
What's New
http://www.trikini.com/whatn.htm
I'm just curious Georgs in this matter, unsure the thing has two
hulls the way we understand a catamaran to have two hulls.
Which is not to say the Sea Sled was anything but an effective
design, especially for its day.
--Georgs
Or are you suggesting that the Hikman inverted V "model 28" is actually a
"sporting sailing cat hull" and they decided to fit large surface drives to
it because sailing was to slow?
Sorry just trying to translate your e-mail.
Regards,
Noah
----- Original Message -----
From: "Georgs Kolesnikovs" georgs@powercatamaranworld.com
To: "Power Catamaran List" power-catamaran@lists.samurai.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: [PCW] Sea Sled
So, Malcolm, are you confirming the Sea Sled was a bona fide catamaran
hull?
Not a trick question. Just would like to know.