News & Recent
Events
Kasten Marine
Design, Inc.
Updated 7 June 2008
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Check out our Plans List
web page for new stock designs being added.
2008
New Web Site...! Yes we have begun work
on a new web site that will focus on our work with larger yachts.
Kasten
Yacht Design - Although
incomplete in terms of our eventually intended content, you will find a
number of excellent photos and images of new designs.
Current Projects: Designs that have recently been begun, are ongoing, will soon be completed,
or are now under construction - in order
of size:
50m (164') Wooden Charter Yacht - A plank-on-frame
Indonesian Sailing Phinisi
Charter Schooner (new design)
36m (118') Wooden Charter Yacht - Dunia Baru -
A plank-on-frame Indonesian KLM
Charter Yacht (soon to be launched)
36m (118')
Wooden Schooner - Amrapali - A plank-on-frame wooden Tern Schooner (out
for estimates, design work continues)
30m (98')
Wooden Charter Phinisi - A plank-on-frame
Indonesian Phinisi Schooner (now under
construction on Sulawesi)
80' Aluminum Motor Yacht - North
Coast - An all-ocean Diesel-Electric
motor yacht. (out for estimates)
64' Steel 'Clipper Yacht'
- Ironheart
- Classic Motor Sailor (soon to be under
construction)
60' Aluminum
Motor Yacht - Swallow's Nest
- An all-ocean expeditionary
Motor Sailor (new design currently being developed)
56' Aluminum Ketch - Shiraz -
Fast sailing in a classic ketch
reminiscent of Herreshoff (soon to be under
construction)
53' Aluminum Motor Yacht
- Valdemar - Motor Yacht for voyaging (now under construction
in Canada)
48' Aluminum Schooner - Jasmine - Electric Drive Sailing Yacht (soon to be under construction)
43' Aluminum Motor Yacht
- Roberta -
Motor Yacht for voyaging (new design)
43' Aluminum Motor
Yacht - Roberta Jean
- Motor Yacht for
voyaging (new design currently being developed)
32' Steel Tug-Yacht - Terrier
- Classic Tug Yacht (now under construction in
Turkey).
New Prototypes: New ideas...
47' Aluminum
Motor Yacht - Roberta Jean - Big sister to the RJ 43, a classic twin-cabin Motor Yacht
in aluminum.
Please also see our 2007 Prototypes below...
2007
Projects: During 2007 we started several new design projects and finished others, including our work on the following - in order of size:
50m (164') Indonesian Charter Yacht - A plank-on-frame Phinisi
Charter Schooner (new design)
36m (118') KLM, Dunia Baru
- A plank-on-frame Indonesian KLM Yacht for charters (under construction)
36m (118') Amrapali - A plank-on-frame wooden Tern Schooner (new
design)
80' Motor Yacht, North
Coast - An all-ocean Diesel-Electric
aluminum motor yacht. (stock design revision)
64' Steel 'Steam Clipper' Yacht, Ironheart - Classic Motor Sailor (continuing
design work)
53' Aluminum Motor Yacht, Valdemar - Motor Yacht for voyaging (under construction)
48' Aluminum Schooner, Jasmine - Electric Drive Sailing Yacht (estimating)
32' Steel Tug-Yacht,
Terrier - Stock design, now under
construction in Turkey.
Prototypes: New ideas...!
50m (164') Indonesian Charter Yacht
- An Indonesian KLM Yacht for charters.
135' Shadow Line - A plank-on-frame Barquentine (preliminary design)
112' Sailing Yacht, Leah - A modern yacht for luxury and fast sailing. Did I say FAST...?
90' 'Tunnel CAT' - A unique type of very fast
foil-bourn planing vessel - the 'Tunnel CAT'
70' Express Cruiser- Like the rum runners of yore - fast,
sleek and classic.
36' Blue Horizon - A
compact all-ocean fantail-stern trawler-yacht in steel.
2006
Designs: During 2006 our work
included:
36m (118') Indonesian
Ketch - Motor Sailor
64' Steel 'Steam
Clipper' Yacht, Ironheart -
Motor Sailor
53' Aluminum Motor
Yacht, Valdemar - Motor Yacht
50' Steel Motor Yacht, Renegade
- Motor Yacht
49' Motor Yacht, Migrant 49
- Motor Yacht
44' Aluminum Schooner, Redpath
- Classic Sailing Yacht
8' Aluminum Sailing Pram
- Yacht Tender
Prototypes: New ideas...!
Nautilus 80 / Nemo 70
- Hybrid submarine-yacht
60' Motor Yacht, 'Steamer' - A classic
60' Motor Yacht, Peregrine
- A favorite
2005
Designs: During 2005 our work
included:
36m (118') Indonesian Ketch
- Motor Sailor
30m (98') Indonesian Ketch - Motor Sailor
96' Aluminum Schooner, Zebulun
60' Iron Steam Yacht Restoration, Sarah E.
Banks
53' Aluminum
Motor Yacht, Valdemar
49' Steel Motor Yacht, Vagrant
40' Aluminum Motor Yacht, Coaster
30' Aluminum Motor Yacht, Buster
18' Greenlander
Kayak
10' Aluminum Sailing Pram
Prototypes: New ideas...!
55' Schooner, Josephine
50' Skipjack Schooner
50' Ketch, Sonja
ARTICLES
All of our online writings can be
reviewed on our Articles web page. Among them, those that
are new or recently revised are as follows:
Testimonials
Composites for Boats
Selected Editorials, 1995 to 2000
- Newly updated
Evolution of a Traditional Wooden Sailing
Type
Indonesian Phinisi Types:
Sailing Phinisi vs. KLM Types
Building An Indonesian Phinisi / KLM
Metal Parts for
Wooden & Composite Boats
What Will The Boat Cost..?
ADVENTURES
Once in a great while we do get to
go on some sort of adventure. You can review some of that wildness
as follows:
At the end of 2004 Lena and I traveled to
Indonesia and sailed for several weeks aboard the
36m Phinisi, a traditional
wooden phinisi 'schooner' that we designed during 2001 - 2002.
This was an
excellent trip! If you'd like to discover more about our brief
adventure in Indonesia, please
check out the 36m
Phinisi Homecoming
page.
During the second quarter of 2006 Lena and I traveled to Indonesia to begin work on a new 36 meter Indonesian Motor Sailor,
which is now under construction in Kalimantan
(Borneo). A few select images from that trip (and
another trip to Indonesia during 2001) can be seen at our web page on
Boatbuilding in Indonesia - A Photo Gallery.
For a bit of background about these incredible wooden vessels,
please check out my article on the
Evolution of a Traditional Wooden Sailing
Type and our
36m Phinisi Homecoming
Voyage of 2004.
Thank you for your interest in our work. Please
come back soon...!
