Design #151 - 42'11" (13.1m) IOR Racing Yacht

full runner tension.

The weight is equivalent or better than using carbon fibre, the cost is significantly less and structural behavior in an overload situation is fare more acceptable.

In both cases resins with delayed setting times were used to enable multiple layers of reinforcing to be layed and clamped with a vacuum bag. This produced smooth laminates with little fairing required at fabric laps minimizing the weight of fairing compound over the inside and outside of hull and deck.