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Marine applications of composite materials - Case of competition sailboats

Authors: Pascal CASARI, Dominique CHOQUEUSE, Peter DAVIES, Hervé DEVAUX

Publication date: January 10, 2008

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1. Examples of structures

We'll confine ourselves here to two types of boat: 60-foot Open monohulls (figure 1 ), and multihulls (trimarans and catamarans, figure 2 ).

Vincent Riou's IMOCA "PRB" monohull, winner of the Vendée Globe. The hull-mast assembly is made of carbon-epoxy. mast: length 28 m, mass: 380 kg, sailing compression load µ...
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