Jake,
Certainly the Infusion is stiffer than the N20, but who engineered that layup? I bet it wasn't an in-house Nacra engineer (maybe a good thing?). Regardless, the lack of quality control on the process has me asking a lot of questions. I don't want to see N17's failing on teams because the factory isn't taping the seams on the outside after joining the hulls. That is all.
There are no in-house engineers (there weren't at the time the Infusion came about, anyway). However, I was at the factory while they were laying up hull number 5 or so and Gino Morrelli was there helping them sort out the bagging material placement and the infusion process....so the engineering on that end was pretty solid. The Infusion MKI is a Melvin and Morrelli design as are a lot of Nacra's products.
