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    Putting Flotsam to Work

    Feb 15, 2022 4 minutes
    story SAM DEVLIN

    I should call this new design Flotsam, as the inspirations for her are generated by a shop filled with the packed storage lockers, corners and shelves that come with more than 40 years of designing and building custom boats.

    We had just finished a large solar-electric catamaran project, and it was high time to lessen the chaos. The battlefield of the shop floor was cluttered with leftover, well, everything. We were blowing down dust from the rafters, straightening out woodpiles, cleaning up the epoxy corner, and collecting the strewn-about carcasses of the fallen for storage in the plumbing, electrics, mechanicals, hardware and sandpaper lockers. At another time of the year, one might call this spring housecleaning, but

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