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Originally Posted by ScottC
Well when we started in back in 94, we were made to sign an agreement and were told we were the first to do it, but who really knows. I worked mostly at the Portsmouth plant, all the boats are made in bristol (which I built more that a few). The portsmouth plant was dedicated to blades. They now build a cute little sailer called a Alerion, decently priced and put together ok, I did the electronics installes on a few as a sub contractor last year to help out a friend, it was fun climbing in a bilge again  |
The alerion is a total sleeper too.
Old school above water layout with a high performance bottom.
Bristol did a good job fixing their own work too. (When x-Titan XI was t-boned at Antigua). You'd never know they stuffed a wide body sheet winch all the way past the pedastle.
I'm glad I only work on sleds these days. No crawling in bilges. All the carbon panels just pop out and everything is routed cleanly.
God bless empty boats.
Been helping my father put B&G Network on his Cape Dory 36... thankfully using the old wires as messengers but some spots have been at the very least... "interesting".
But back to the topic, yes, it takes alot of wind for those blades to start humming.
Probably a vast majority of the days, unless you looked up at them, you'd never know they were there.