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Bieker 50 Cat

Maybe the first cat done by Seattleite Paul Bieker? I was told that the design fee was over $100,000. And I have to fight to try to justify every dollar in a fee.
If I may, they will learn that the flat bow tube can break off when the bow slaps down hard in big waves.  And I bet it does a lot of aquarium-mode when it crosses a Pacific harbor bar.
In a line or two, it looks like a Shuttleworth that was smacked with a Polynesian stick, and had a pickers shack was dropped in the middle. But its all carbon don’t forget. I guess the foils get pulled up when they come to the kelp beds.
With a design fee that big, I can be snarky if I want to.

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More CSR

CSR just got this box of goodies. Solid carbon fiber AC45 foils. They go on Chaak? I told Tim they should fold up some quick CM plywood/epoxy cat hulls, with as much carbon as they can afford, and build a drag racer.

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