Third Coast Composites
Welcome to the new website for Third Coast Composites formally known as Rainbow Boat Works.
Third Coast Composites will be kitting out plywood boat kits (We like to call them renewable carbon based boat kits.) as well as a line of fiberglass offshore sailboats.
We are currently cutting plywood boat kits for Dudley Dix, Dix Designs, Paul Fisher, Selway-Fisher.
We will soon be cutting kits for John Welsford, John Welsford Small Craft Design.
In addition to wood kits, 3CC will be building custom Mini Class Sailboats. We are in the process of building a Carbon Fiber Pierre Rolland Prototype Open 6.50. We will be building Series boats in the US as well.
Bear with us as we add to this site and set up the online store. We will be adding epoxy, fiberglass, plywood and many other boat building supplies.
We will be adding to the Photo Gallery from time to time as well.
Until then, if you need something please email me at sam at thirdcoastcomposites.com
Third Coast Composites is located at 525 B E Walker, League City, TX 77573.
Thanks Sam Ausmus III
281-451-7061
Dix Design Kits
We are currently cutting kits for the following Dix Designs:
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Getting ready for the water.
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 May 6, 2009
She's in the water.
May 2, 2009
We are almost there with hull #001. Keel is bolted on and final fairing is almost finished.
She is a great looking boat.
More pictures in the Photo Gallery.
Sam
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Painting is finished, on to deck hardware.
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03-10-2009 - Dry fitting tiller and under deck auto pilot assembly on the eKo. Will be putting the rest of the hardware on this week.
Deck painting was complete on Saturday thanks to Katie and Drew working to dust the non-skid on.
More to come.Sam
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Houston, we have a new Mini Hull.....
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The pour for the keel fin should have been done on Monday.
This is a picture of the mold ready to receive molten iron.
Painted the cockpit areas that will not have non-skid. Katie selected and custom mixed the color for the vertical surfaces. Really fast looking..... (Kind of reminds me of a 55 Chevy Nomad.) 2/27/2009
We started to paint the deck today. 02/26/2009.
We have started painting the areas were there will be no non-skid to reduce chafe on lines and for visual appeal. Our cockpit and non- skit will be two different colors. For a small extra fee we can let you customize the deck colors on your boat. Just tell us when you order.....
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More pictures can be found here.
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New Mini Transat Series Boat to be built by Third Coast Composites
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August 11, 2008, League City, Texas - Third Coast Composites is proud to announce that a new Series Mini Transat boat, designed by Pierre Rolland, is now being built on North America. The first boat will be infused this August and subsequent boats will be available starting in the fall of 2008.
“To grow the class, it must be easier to get a boat,” said Sam Ausmus, President of Third Coast Composites. Ausmus, a successful businessman and Mini Class US Vice President, decided upon seeing the fleet tied up in Bermuda last summer that in order to get more people involved in the class, Minis had to be more accessible to the North American market.“Each of the mini skippers had endured either months of waiting for a boat to arrive from Europe, years of home building time, or epic treks sailing thousands of miles to pick their boat up from Brazil.To get more people involved with Minis and Mini sailing, accessibility is going to take more direct action than just publicizing the class.”, he said
Being an entrepreneur, Sam decided that he would go into business building a Series Mini Transat boat in North America the necessary ingredients to succeed where others had struggled or failed.
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Kits: We are now cutting kits for the Dix Lynnhaven 16 Canoe.
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 Third Coast is ready to cut CNC Plywood Kits for the Lynnhaven 16 Canoe.
From Dudley's website:
The Lynnhaven 16 is designed for those who want a family fun boat that they can build themselves. I built the prototype in 3 weeks of weekends and evenings, total less than 100 hours of single-handed work.
This is about as much boat as can be built from 3 sheets of plywood, with very little scrap left at the end of the project. I built the prototype from 6mm (1/4") plywood, which produced a robust boat but a bit heavy at 32kg (70lb). It can be built from 4mm (1/8") plywood to about 20kg (45lb) or anything between.
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Didi Mini Mk 2 from Dudley Dix Designs
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 We are cutting kits for the Didi Mini Mk 2, designed by Dudley Dix. First kit shipped to Quebec, Canada. Check the Web Links for a link to builder web site.
The Didi Mini is designed to the Open 6.50 Prototype Rules and if care is taken during build, the Didi can be built as light as a full out Carbon Fiber Proto at a fraction of the cost.
You may not know but I am building a Didi Mini Mk 1 from a kit that I purchased from Eric over two years ago.
You can follow my progress and non-progress on my building website Mini-Sailor.US. I am building an all out Plywood Prototype Mini, carbon fiber rig, canting keel, water ballast, etc.
I purchased a plywood only kit and have located suppliers for all of the other components and will add them as options as we complete the kit and kit pricing.
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Note: November 7, 2007.
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Paper Jet 14 - Award Wining Design from Dudley Dix
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Third Coast Composites announces their first kit - Paper Jet 14.
 From Dudley's Website.
The Paper Jet 14 is designed primarily as a training boat, with the intention that it can cater for a wide range of sailing skills. I wanted a boat that will allow a club to race it as a class boat that will give exciting sailing to those who have the skills but will also allow less experienced sailors to develop their sailing skills in the same boat at a much lower level of performance.
The same features that I designed into it for club use will allow a family to use one hull as the platform on which Dad can have his excitement of blasting across large expanses of water but junior can sail the same boat (if he can pry it loose from Dad's grip) with a smaller rig and at slower speed.
I am not trying to produce a design that will sail the pants off any of the other single-handers. It is fast and it will be really exciting to sail with the Turbo rig, but from the outset (this boat has been in the back of my head for over 10 years) it is intended to provide an economical path for sailors to progress between boats like the Optimist and the costly single-handed skiffs without having to trade up their boat each time to go the next step. They can build a Paper Jet at the cheapest level or the level that they think that they can handle and progress from there. Meanwhile, as long as Dad is not out sailing, the kids can use the same boat at a more basic level. It makes sailing more viable for many families. With time and skill improvements they can move into more costly boats if they feel the need. Click here to read more....
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