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[quote=Edchris177][quote]Hey catmodding or Edchriss....do you have any info on the boat he's using and how it's modified? That thing looks a lot heavier duty than an off the shelf boat. [/quote]
Sorry for the delay, just got back from my Western place...Though the lawn was bare & dry, just west they had a meter+ (39") of dry powder in 48 hrs at Castle Mountain. The skiing was epic, it is not a well known mountain, mostly locals & a smattering of Calgary people, no line ups, you can ski right back onto the lift. There are still plenty of untracked powder lines, after 3 days! It was snorkelling conditions, Heli skiing for the price of a lift ticket. It was an exhausting dirty beer fuelled job, but somebody had to do it. 
My French is not very good, but I read that it is not a high performance boat, construction is vacumn bagging, utilizing fibreglass/epoxy. It does appear to contain some carbon, I'm not sure exactly where.
 Built by JPS Production ( Nicolas Groleau ) , La Trinité-sur -Mer 
After the mold was made , hulls were laid in sandwich fiberglass / foam (15mm) fiber glass, impregnated with epoxy resin.
It sounds like they lay up all the layers(it was a 1 shot process), cover it, then apply vacumn. The resin supply is opened, allowing the resin to migrate through the layers. Resin flow is stopped, vacumn remains to compact the layers, & remove solvent fumes.
Here are a whack of photos. They are in reverse order, latest first. Some righting trials 1/2 way down, construction at the bottom. Suiv means "next", fermer means "close".
[url]http://ledefidyvanbourgnon.com/les-photos-du-defi/[/url]
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Materials: glass, carbon, epoxy
Technique: infusion
Length: 6.3 meters long (almost 21 ft)
Width: 4 meters(13 ft)
Height: 60 cm
Mast height: 12 meters(30.4 ft)
Weight: 360 pounds empty
Mainsail area : 25 m2 (270 sq ft)
Surface spi : 50 m2 (540 sq ft)
Number of sails: 5
Board material: 130 kilos(287 lb)
Crew Material: 170 kilos(375 lb)<em>Edited by Edchris177 on Feb 19, 2014 - 05:26 PM.</em> [/quote]

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