Hi all,
having trouble writing this post. Have to just blurt it out.

Altered has failed structualy!!!! The starboard hull has collapsed forward of the main beam, on the inside it has completly broken through the skin and the core. The only thing holding the hull together is the carbon I layed up on the outside of the hull.

It collapsed sailing upwind with me on trap and it was the leeward hull, in about 15kts. breeze and fairly flat water I had everything pulled on hard flying a hull. I had no warning just felt the rig come back and I fell into the water came up expecting the forestay or shrouds to have failed took a while to realise the leeward hull was flapping back and forth. Got the sail and rig down alright all that is intact. Don't worry I think I know why it failed, the bridle loads were something the boat was never designed for. It was my experiment and I have to live with the consequences of not engineering the alterations well enough. Makes the price of the boat (previous post) look alot more expensive now.

Don't know what I am going to do now???????????????????????
maybe cry some Altered has become part of me!

Actualy it's all Wouters fault he jinxed me with the post backing Altered to win titles, I almost said in my return post don't jump to that sort of conclusion to quick. I thought I had alot of sorting out to do yet, but nothing this big.

I'm feeling a bit better now, hope you guy's don't mind a sad post.

Regard Gary.