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by Luiz
September 12th, 2011, 6:40 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Repair of SC15 bow broken near the main crossbeam
Replies: 4
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Re: Repair of SC15 bow broken near the main crossbeam

I just wanted o thank Tom Haberman for his advice regarding the repair procedure. The repair work took forever because it was done in the shipyard's spare time (and mine), but in the end the boat looks great and has no perceptible weight increase. It has been sailing for a few months now and even ...
by Luiz
September 12th, 2011, 5:40 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Tradewinds coverage pics of ARC17
Replies: 8
Views: 14944

Re: SC/ARC Products and the Press

Bill Roberts wrote: It is called passive suppression, Thom.
It's called passive agression, actually.
by Luiz
October 28th, 2010, 12:40 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Repair of SC15 bow broken near the main crossbeam
Replies: 4
Views: 8051

Re: Repair of SC15 bow broken near the main crossbeam

Thanks, I agree with you.

The shipyard did remove the old coat and certainly sanded the glass in the weakened part. They did what I told them to do and it was my mistake not seeing that weakened point and not asking to fix it. They thought the glass was solid, not sandwich, and so did I.

Anyway ...
by Luiz
October 25th, 2010, 5:21 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Repair of SC15 bow broken near the main crossbeam
Replies: 4
Views: 8051

Repair of SC15 bow broken near the main crossbeam

Hi everybody,

I am new here, but many probably know me from other cat and multihull forums. The reason I'm posting here is that I need advice to fix a Supercat 15 bow that failed near the crossbeam. Following advice received elsewhere, I wrote directly to Aquarius-Sail emails, but input from the ...