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Looks like they need to make room for more windmill blades
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Where are they now? - Retired America's Cup Boat
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OK reviewed the site.
WHO is the driver? Is this a 501c3?
There's no background on the site to understand motivations of the leadership.
dedam
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She is stil there
dedam
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Valencia 2022 oktober
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He just walked away and left it ?
Rennmaus
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It was a gift to Valencia, a gift the city never wanted to get. Bringing her back to Switzerland would have been quite expensive, hence the "generous" present.
Priscilla
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Theres a shit ton of disused obsolete mostly carbon fibre constructed AC boats and components that can’t be effectively recycled.
All in all a pretty sad environmental indictment of the AC in general.
Pete and Blair are keen to bang the environmental drum maybe they should turn their attention to matters closer to home.
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All in all a pretty sad environmental indictment of the AC in general.
Pete and Blair are keen to bang the environmental drum maybe they should turn their attention to matters closer to home.
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For anybody that doesn't read the SA Forum or the (dread) FP,
Charley Morgan passed last Friday.
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Charley Morgan passed last Friday.
RIP Charley
Charley Morgan has passed~~~~ RIP Charley ~~~~ Met him for the first time in August 1968 at the Sarasota Sailing Squadron. I was sailing on a Morgan Yachts built Windmill at a Florida State Championship and several times over the years. Last time I chatted with him was at the SPYC where he came...
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MauiPunter
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Why can't carbon fiber be shredded and re-used?
shebeen
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not an expert at all, but the carbon fibre end product you see is carbon fibre + cured resins. because the bond is so strong, it makes separating them impractical.
kind of like reversing a scrambled egg to quote the idiom.
MauiPunter
Will sail for food
I guess a solution would be to repurpose the shredded material into something else. There's gotta be something that can be done.
enigmatically2
Super Anarchist
You can recycle carbon fibre to some extent. But like all recycling it takes effort, and energy. So cost effectiveness and whether it is worth it for the environment can be a different matter
Some methods described here
shebeen
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List of IACC yachts - Wikipedia
here is the similiar list of AC75, suppose it is time for an update
AC75 - Wikipedia
Steam Flyer
Sophisticated Yet Humble
I've seen fiberglass crunched up and recycled into paving, or at least, compacted fill under conventional pavement.
dogwatch
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Out of curiosity, how many here know there is a replica of the original America in the wild, sailing I believe on the US NE coast? I was talking recently to someone who was amazed none of us had heard of it. I realise it may be a biased sample here.
I have sailed the one that was based for years in San Diego, it may still be there. Was fun to steer.
dogwatch
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Thanks. Looks a nicer place to be than an AC 75.
Apparently there have been three replicas. A 1967 left coast one, since broken up. A 1995 one, previously in San Diego, now east coast. Third a European affair.
Apparently there have been three replicas. A 1967 left coast one, since broken up. A 1995 one, previously in San Diego, now east coast. Third a European affair.
Forourselves
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RIP Patriot 16-10-2020 - 07-02-2023
