MrWolf

Ok, so I said it wrong. Here is my point though. Our sailing displacement is 1450 kg, so the buoyancy of our new ama is 240%? (Being 3500/1450 x 100) When I bought Wolfy it was claimed it had 200% amas, but when you flew the main hull, the gunwhale of the ama was virtually level with the water, and there was very little reserve. I think a lot of people state there ama buoyancy % using the weight of the bare boat, not the Sailing Displacement, including alll crew and all additional gear on board? so if my new ama is 240% then are Lucifers and Sam's new boats amas really 350%

Because the person I know with the biggest mouth saw me weigh them I had to 'fess up. Word was going to get out there any way ! We aren't exactly sure how much the old ones weighed but I have lifted the old ones on a number of occassions, as have Bryan and Jason, these are definitely lighter, but to be honest I am not certain by how much. These ones are a good deal bigger though at 22 square metres of surface area, and when fully submerged will displace around 3500 kg

I wasnt asking about the financial arrangements just curious to see how long it takes a couple of pros to build some carbon floats. Me and George were hoping to take 600 hours but it was more like 800 to do our tortured ply floats with a bit more fairing and painting yet. Ha Ha Ha, Totally busted ! I never really properly worked out how much the ama was going to weigh, and never did a weight study or anything like that. The basic premise was that the new amas were longer and lighter than the old one's and have similar amount of rocker. Therefore that should be enough to m

So #278 is basically showing that before the Deck was laminated, we started with around a 2mm rebate in the bow. The bow wrap layers in #278 are 3 200 gm Carbon Cloth layers. then the deck was laminated. when the hull laminate goes on it is just cut at the bow rebate. after that dries, the bow is sanded up, and 4 more layers of Carbon Cloth 200 gm are put on at 45 degrees. that wrap over the bow, and land in our side rebates. So what we end up with at the bow is about 120mm wide of High Density foam, which is covered in a total of 1900 grams of Carbon. we end up around 8mm th

About 125kg in the photo, with still a few fittings and paint to go. BTW they used to give a Rum prize out for the poster who starts the popular thread ! you could bring it with you for a Rum race, so long as you don't mind sailing on a multi, might not want to wear Ugg boots though.

It has a seriously sharp bow !

Ama 1 is virtually finished,ready to fair, then ready to attach gudgeons, chainplates, tramp tracks, fittings etc, then paint