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Amatasi at Beale Park Show 2011

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Comment by kim whitmyre on June 16, 2011 at 11:15am: The hull shape is wonderful. Out of plywood! Looks like it was molded in (gasp!) fiberglass.

Comment by brian.annepearson on June 16, 2011 at 11:35am: The plywood is a very eco friendly Poplar plywood. Very low cost, similar in cost to Birch plywood, but much lighter, it is lighter per panel than ocume. It does need sheathing though, but as Hanekke said, she is sheathed anyway. The costing sheet stood around £3500 so far with sails and fitting out to add. I use Sailcut4 to design lug sails and have had a go at Amatasi's mainsail, and sent the results to Hanekke.

Comment by paul anderson on June 16, 2011 at 11:41am: lovely colour,all custardy.brian what have you used as a final coat over the sheathing?p.s could you show some more pics if you have them of the lashings

Comment by Geminidawn on June 16, 2011 at 11:55am: I think I'll be ordering a set of study plans!

Comment by brian.annepearson on June 16, 2011 at 12:26pm: Lots more pictures here https://picasaweb.google.com/JCaprani/Amatasi27AtJamesWharramDesign...

This is the prototype built by James and Hanneke and on show at Beale.

Comment by Geminidawn on June 16, 2011 at 12:57pm: Any idea as to what is it's payload?

Comment by brian.annepearson on June 16, 2011 at 1:02pm: LOA 8.4m

WLL 7.1m

Beam oa 4.2m

Beam c-c 2.9m

Hull beam 0.85

Hull depth 0.85

Draft max 0.36m

Weight approx 450kg

Loading Capacity 700kg

Max Disp 1150kg

working sail area 22sqm

main 18sqm

mizzen4sqm

extra genoa 10sqm

Max sail area 32sq m

All from the Amatasi handout at the show.

Brian

Comment by Geminidawn on June 20, 2011 at 5:05pm: Thanks Brian, just got the studyplan in the post today. May well be interested, still no price on the full set of plans though.