| Could multihulls be here to stay? #196166 11/13/09 12:49 PM 11/13/09 12:49 PM |
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Posts: 894 Branford, CT | Seahorse: Could multihulls be here to stay? Brad Butterworth: I think so. The fact that the Cup has been embroiled in this legal argument shakes the Cup up and usually something good comes out of it. It did in 1988 and hopefully this time we might see a multihull version of what we've had in the past. Good interview at the link below http://www.seahorsemagazine.com/2009-December/alinghi.php | | | Re: Could multihulls be here to stay?
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#196167 11/13/09 01:08 PM 11/13/09 01:08 PM |
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Posts: 1,203 uk | This guy from BOR says that sailing in multis would exclude a lot of teams that would be able to afford to compete in 'ordinary' boats. I know a match race is only 2 boats but the selection process has been what the event is all about. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz-hWGsS0gY&feature=player_embedded
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#196208 11/13/09 06:48 PM 11/13/09 06:48 PM |
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Posts: 757 japan | it doesn't have to be expensive
after the war they went from the big J boats to the 12mtr box? to make it cheaper
they could easily make a 40' cat box based on the vx40
problem is they would be reinventing the little americas cup;o) which never really caught the publics imagination...
so maybe something a little bigger with bigger crew
AND NO ENGINES
eric e 1982 nacra 5.2 - 2158 2009 weta tri - 294
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#196235 11/14/09 12:06 AM 11/14/09 12:06 AM |
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Posts: 6,049 Sebring, Florida. | I would like them to do it in something like the VX 40 cats, plenty fast and more affordable so more than just two insanely wealthy guys can get a shot at it.
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Posts: 6,049 Sebring, Florida. | Yes but $10 Millon for a busted mast?? That's a bit steep!
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Posts: 678 Palm Beach County | Same thing I say when I sail past Palm Beach,
“Disgusting Display of Wealth!”
but I figure let them spend it on boats!
Mike Shappell www.themanshed.comTMS-20 Builder G-Cat 5.7 - Current Boat NACRA 5.2 - early 70's | | | Re: Could multihulls be here to stay?
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#196438 11/16/09 08:28 AM 11/16/09 08:28 AM |
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Posts: 12,310 South Carolina | 10 mill for a broken mast is incredible and distasteful.
The AC have always been for the super wealthy.. That $10M figure (and lately a $15M figure) have been tossed around in the media but I don't think there was much basis in that figure. The mainsails for DZ were reported to be around $250,000 each...figure the headsail was similar or a little more...I just can't see that mast being THAT expensive.
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Posts: 6,049 Sebring, Florida. | I can't imagine how they built a 200' long single piece of over cured carbon...anything! Maybe some of the $10M figure was the cost to build the oven? Did they even bake it or did they use some other method?
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Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 12,310 South Carolina Jake
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Posts: 12,310 South Carolina | I can't imagine how they built a 200' long single piece of over cured carbon...anything! Maybe some of the $10M figure was the cost to build the oven? Did they even bake it or did they use some other method? I don't know for sure, but I would be about 98% certain they used Pre-preg carbon fabric which required heat (and hopefully pressure) to cure. It's conceivable that they could do that in sections but better if they could do it all at once.
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