Ivan on the Carbon…..

Happy to back Phil on this one, having laid up the 15 laminates myself, I suspect for the first boat the carbon skin was added after the hull had been laminated conventionally, meaning the laminate needed wetting out afresh. With a conventional inner laminate I would be expecting to use about 9kg of resin, hence the weight gain.Once Ovi’s were content with this technique the carbon may well have have been laminated at the same time as the rest of the inner skin making for little weight gain. One of the advantages of carbon in my experience is that it takes up less resin for a given strength. Ivan Coryn

Phil Evans Speaks on Carbon Flying Fifteens…..

Charles, The first ovi carbon hull was around 9kg underweight but on the last two carbon boats I finished one was 18kg and the other had 20 kgs of correctors Phil Evans