Super-light skiff designed
NZPA Sydney The world 1 Mooter sailing i champion and former InterDominion 12-footer chamIpion, lain Murray, has designed a new boat said to be the lightest, yet strongest skiff, ever built. Hand-laminated, super-thin plywood made to aircraft standards will be used to build the hull which, when completed, will weigh between 40kg and 45kg. Cemac, one of Australia’s eading plywood manufacturers, are sponsoring the new skiff, Cemac Seaply, for a leading Sydney 12-footer sailor, Larry Cargill, next season. Sailing his old Cemac Seaply. Cargill won the season’s pointscore with the Sydney Flying Squadron, was third in the New South Wales championship, and second in the Inter-Dominion championship. The new ply used in construction is a direct result of research for a lightweight ply for Cemac’s challenger in
the 1979 world quarter ton cup, "Seaflyer.” The plywood is a 4mm three-ply product, 25 per cent to 30 per cent lighter than standard seaply. It is also lighter and stronger than cedar ply and imported Gaboon ply of the same thickness. However, the real advance in the new design will be in the great rigidity of the hull as a result of the nine veneers of top quality timber. The professional skiff builder, John McConaghy, will build the new 12-footer which, for the first time in 12-footers, will have the mast tension controlled by hydraulics. Seaply’s campaign programme for the 1979-80 season will be the New South Wales 12-footer championships on Sydney harbour in December, the Australian titles in Brisbane ovei Christmas, and then the ’ Inter-Dominion champion- : ships in Auckland next Easter.
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