The last of the tooling components for the construction of the all-new trimaran Corsair 880 were completed this week. That means molds for the hulls, deck, floats, beams, and all internal components are now in place. The parts will now be repositioned to their choreographed production station, ready to start construction of the first Corsair [...]
The busy Corsair Marine factory is full to the brim making multihulls. So many of the key tooling components for the Corsair 880 are being constructed outside of the main facility and then shipped or driven in. It was an exciting day today as the first of such components shipped out. Seen in the [...]
880 Construction Update 6 Ok, so as you have seen in the last few updates the Corsair 880 trimaran is really starting to take shape now. At this stage in the game tape measures and calipers are our go to tool. Everything is getting checked and rechecked, we really need to nail this deck, [...]
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 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 [...]
