The first half lee hull is infused and apparently went well. Etamax spent some time working on the mould to get it airtight (we will not be using particle board for any more moulds), and there were a couple of things I stuffed up (no plastic under the spiral wrap and the bag was a little small) in the rush to get the bag on, so there will be some grinding required, but otherwise it looks good. Second half next week.
It makes sense to get Etamax to join the 2 halves and install the mast bearings and the beam sockets as it will be much easier to do these in the factory with a lathe and a level floor rather than outside up here. I will probably go down to help, and to watch how a mast gets filament wound.
I spent last week sailing in the Aus Multihull Nationals on a 30' cat. Lots of fun and some close racing, but only 7 Div 1 boats, ranging from the very simple (4 winches, 4 sails, 2 adults and 2 kids crew) to the highly complex (curved hydrofoils, hydraulic canting rigs, multiple furling screechers and spinnakers, 6 adult crews on a 32' tri which allegedly cost well north of half a million dollars). We broke our gooseneck fitting (welded alloy, I built a fibreglass one to replace it) and tore a cleat off the mast. The tri broke a couple of foils and had delam issues round the case. I spent a lot of time saying/thinking "that won't be a problem on Bucket List".
It was debatable whether the lifting foils were an advantage or not, particularly as the winner (by over a leg in most races) was a 35' cat with straight foils.
Theoretically (weight, windage, sail area, length), Bucket List would have been ahead of this boat. Looking forward to finding out!
Still working on the new designs (works of art) with Steinar, so the web page update has been delayed, but if we have not finished it by the time we join the BL hull, I will post the construction photos regardless.
rob
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