8:10 AM Wed 6 Oct 2010 GMT
One of the features of the new AC45 yacht, designed as a trainer racer for the 34th America's Cup, is the wingsail. At the Core Composites building facility in Warkworth, 40 minutes north of Auckland, a mould is being built to produce the wingsails for the new one design. Looking remarkably like something out of a model plane construction kit, the main spar male mould is being is being constructed in two halves, but will not be CNC milled like the hulls. A more 'traditional' approach is being used to build the moulds. A small test section of 'soft' flap
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by Richard Gladwell
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Lara, VIC
