I'm trully sorry if I caused all this, Gary.

Would I be correct if I assume you reinforced the outside of the hulls but not the insides ?

Bloody bad luck, Gary.

A real pitty.

>>hope you guy's don't mind a sad post.

Surely not, this is drama. There wouldn't be any exitement if there is no risk of failure. This time, the risk won out over good fortune. But I for one have heaps of respect for you for starting on an adventure like that. You're my hero. I remember running heaps of numbers on the basic Taipan platform to determine the right modifications. I remember the feeling during the first times out on the water. I understand the greatness of the project you choose to undertake.

Together with the others I hope she is salvageable. This project has trully won the hearts of the sailors on this particular forum.

If I may; I've you choose to repair it and the failure was on the unreinforced inside of the hulls than I would advice you use the same cloths for the reinforcements as was used to build the hulls. Using a different cloth can still lead to problems as, for example, glass and carbon have different properties leading to staged failure. Meaning first the stiffer carbon will fail as the more flexible glass will not take any load at that time. Then all the load on the glass again, which will fail in sequence. Using the same material for the reinforcements is a good way to prevent that. I'm sure you know this yourself but I just wanted to make sure.

But again Gary, bloody shame this happened.

Hope you will rise from the flames and get altered back, with you in the saddle.

Wouter