What's in the beams The beams of the 880, or any folding trimaran for that matter are under extremely high loads. Quite often under loaded conditions the load on the beams will be 3-5x the total boat weight. On the 880 the calculated max load on the beams is around 9,000kg. Corsair has years [...]
While work continues on the hull and deck of the trimaran Corsair 880, beam plugs are shaping up nicely. The beam plugs have been constructed in a very similar manner to the larger plugs. This begins with designing the framework on the 3d model before exporting these to a CNC machine to be precision [...]
How we are using technology to our advantage. The technology available to R&D teams today is light years ahead of where it was just a decade ago. In such a short amount of time, new technologies have hit the market and those technologies have progressively become more affordable and accessible to individuals and businesses. [...]
How do we ensure quality in our final design? It's a very good question, quality of the final molds is far more critical for a folding trimaran that pretty much any other boat design on the water. If the beam landings or strut mounts are out by a mere millimeter the entire folding geometry [...]
880 Construction Update 4 Check it out! The Corsair 880 hull plug takes shape, we can start to make out some of the hull details through the fairing compound and primer. The stage the hull is in at the moment may look like its nearly there but in actuality to achieve high quality tooling [...]
