Hulls of yachts to be tested
NZPA staff correspondent Fremantle The hull of New Zealand’s fibreglass challenger for the America’s Cup will be tested for thickness within the next fortnight, bringing to an end the three-month “Glassgate” row.
KZ7’s three aluminium rivals will be tested also.
The Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, which is organising the Louis Vuitton Cup challenge series, announced the decision last evening, but did not specify what method of testing would be used.
It is understood that the most likely method will be to use ultra-sound equipment rather than to cut core samples, which in the case of KZ7 would — according to one of its designers, Bruce Farr — have to be a halfmetre in diameter.
The club said that all four boats would be resurveyed and remeasured for the semifinals, and the resurvey would be done by Roger Rymill, the principal surveyor of Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, who will arrive in Fremantle this morning.
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