Rack em up!

It was very frustrating having to work while the inaugural 18fter Mark Foy Trophy was being hotly contested in Carnac. The racing looked tight and fair with a good range of conditions (although I think it was big rigs all week, am I right?) Robert Greenhalgh, Dan Johnson and Phil Harmer pictured above (thanks to Yachts and Yachting ) did a great job, winning the event convincingly from boats of every corner of the world. Not sailing the last race and still winning by a good margin is usually a sign of overall supremecy. Interestingly the top 3 boats representing the UK, Australia and the USA in that order - Truly epic stuff... Hopefully next year we'll be there.

Not that that is a prediction of when we will hit the water!! We weren't taking it easy here at carbonology HQ - As you can see we're assembling the racks now - The tube has been provided by our viking friend Soren Clausen at Xperion Tubes - Soren was racing in carnac last week in GP Covers (DEN1) and looked like they enjoyed the fresher days particularly! The tube is pull wound so it is particularly stable in torsion - which it is very good for rack tubes to be good at because once sailing, the loads are generally bending and twisting and strain can be in any direction or load case.

As I type both sets are outside curing (funnily enough the boat doesn't fit in the 'shop with the racks loaded!) and when the initial glue has gone off, we'll start seconadary laminating - which might be worth a look if you are interested...

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