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...sail boat race season that is.
been hustling at work to get this done in time for the summer season.
ok..so i know it's not bike racing...but it is 65 feet of honeycomb carbon fiber technology. it's basicllay a middle distance ocean racer (new port to bermuda type stuff), the class used to be called maxi, but i'm not sure what the new name is. my part in all this at the moment is putting the hydraulics together.
(Pardon the dust lots of sanding still going on)
the bow...paint goes from red to black...i call it the darth vader boat.
she is abit long.
on a hard tack only one rudder is in the water at a time...in long distance racing a hard tack can last for days.
view of the deck from the foward hatch. you can just see the dual steering wheel pedistals.square box like hole is where the mast goes.
below the foward hatch. main hatch and engine box behind the laminator guy. engine is a small 4cyl yanmar diesel. drive shaft and prop lifted up into hull when not in use. crew quarters behind that. no floor boards yet.
close up of some of the un painted CF near the transom. the whole boat is either honeycomb CF or soild CF. the honeycomb is retardedly light...but a pain in the balls to drill into or mount stuff to. there is a process, and one batch of 10 holes can take a day and a half.
more CF work near the bow.
i'll try and update more as i go, but i may be bounced to other projects as things pop up.
i never knew something so slow could be so high tech.