New projects take shape |
| Wednesday, 28 December 2005 |
| Construction continues apace at Southern Ocean Marines factory in New Zealand on Dominique Wavre's new Temenos Open 60 project. The critical schedule for this build meant that the hull had to be faired and in primer before Christmas, tight deadlines are not uncommon to Southern Ocean Marine and with the back up of Owen Clarke Design the stream of information is unbroken allowing a tight build schedule to be adhered too.
From the primary hull tool frames being erected on the 25th October, the first Carbon laminates being laid down on the 14th November and now the hull faired and primer painted before Christmas. This stage is still not representative of the enormous amounts of work being undertaken on other areas of the boat. The major internal structural components, deck, construction of the mast and spars all has to meet at one point for launch, rule measurement and then ultimately delivery and handover after sea trials mid July.
Meanwhile Jonathan Crinions Class 40 entry for the 2006 Route Du Rhum progresses well at Jaz Marine South Africa. Merfyn Owen visited the yard recently on behalf of Jonathan Crinion, Owen Clarke Design have agreed to inspect the vessel during build at various critical stages. Merfyns comment on his findings sums up the atmosphere at Jaz Marine. ‘I was very impressed with the attitude and competence of Jaz Marine, they clearly want to make special boats without compromise’
With all the major structural components built the careful task of interlocking and assembling the transverse and longitudinal structural grid is well under way. With the deck now laminated, and its complex jigsaw of high density inserts and reinforcement patches for hardware in place, assembly of the structure of the first boat from the mould should be completed by the end of January. There are still build slots available for further Class 40’s from this tooling for the 2006 Route Du Rhum.
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