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New carbon beams ready for mounting on Tiki 21 (1)

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Comment by Björn on April 6, 2016 at 6:42am
Did you do any calculations on stiffness, laminat thickness and so on?
Comment by sailorjoy on April 6, 2016 at 12:21pm

Hi Björn,

I didn´t make calculations. I find it difficult to calculate the loads on the beams in big waves with high pressure on the sails. I  orientate on massiv laminate and do it with carbon and kevlar. So I. have a wallthickness of 8mm.

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