infusing The hull & Is white the best spinnaker color?

So today I picked the spinnaker color and then received a bunch of build photos. First up is the hull being infused. In traditional vacuum bagging, the glass is wetted out with resin and then vacuum bag draws out the excess resin by squeezing it out. If you don’t get all the excess out you […]

how do you make God laugh? make a plan.

After reserving my build slot in June 2018, I started planning the trip to get the boat back to the states after hurricane season. With a spring delivery date there would be enough time to sail to the Baltic via the Kiel Canal and then back to the Atlantic Coast of Europe before setting off […]

sanity test starts going in the mold

The first photo shows the hull with the gelcoat and the first layer of fiber installed. They install a clear not gelcoat on the bottom so they can do post infusion quality control checks. The green you see is the mold. The visible bumps in the hull create a recess to allow any though hull […]