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Re:Foiling Electric Boat by MikaelCandela on Thursday August 20, 2020 @10:39AM (#24223747)
The boat is actually not fiberglass, it’s all carbon fiber. That’s why it’s so light - the hull is just 230 kg. A similar glass fiber boat would be 900 kg.
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Re:Foiling Electric Boat by fock on Thursday August 20, 2020 @11:06AM (#24224043)
how do you intend to fix and cracks and similar things coming up over the sustainable lifetime of such a recreational article (probably spanning several decades)?
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Re:Foiling Electric Boat by jiofih on Thursday August 20, 2020 @04:36PM (#24228620)
Carbon fiber doesn’t crack like fiberglass.
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