A new update on the sports progress and future plans has been published by Airplay trimarans you can read it here:
http://pub.lucidpress.com/GoodSports/
all photos courtesy Airplay Trimarans.
Showing posts with label Airplay trimarans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Airplay trimarans. Show all posts
Friday, 16 May 2014
Airplay Sports 30 trimaran update
The Airplay Sports trimaran is coming along well and should be launched soon. In the mean time here are some photos courtesy of Airplay trimarans from the factory. This model is intended to offer some more comfortable cruising amenity than the stripped back race boat interior of the RAW 30.
A new update on the sports progress and future plans has been published by Airplay trimarans you can read it here:
http://pub.lucidpress.com/GoodSports/
all photos courtesy Airplay Trimarans.
A new update on the sports progress and future plans has been published by Airplay trimarans you can read it here:
http://pub.lucidpress.com/GoodSports/
all photos courtesy Airplay Trimarans.
Airplay RAW 30, Prosail Asia report on the International Multihull Boat Show at La Grande Motte
The crew from Prosail Asia were responsible for displaying the Airplay RAW30 trimaran at the International Multihull Boat Show in La Grande Motte. They have put up a nice article on their experiences at the show. The prototype RAW30 was sold and is staying in France with it's new owners it will be interesting to see how it performs against the competition.
http://pub.lucidpress.com/LaGrandeMotte/
http://pub.lucidpress.com/LaGrandeMotte/
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
Tuesday, 4 March 2014
Tuesday, 11 February 2014
Airplay RAW 30 trimaran, First regatta and first regatta winning performance from the new trimaran
News from the Aiplay crew at the Neptune regatta where the RAW 30 dominated the multihull division on their first foray into racing with the new boat.
https://www.facebook.com/airplaytrimaran
Well the Race to Zero was RAW's first time to line up against anything. It's been an exciting year in Airplay Land getting the boat off Tony's design board and onto the water. True to the original idea of doing trialling before production, we are there. When we saw the plug of RAW sitting in the shop floor and saw the flat bottom, we sucked our breath in a figured she'd either be fantastic or a wood duck! Well after racing RAW for 300 miles in all sorts... We can say... We are extremely pleased with RAW. She's a super rigid platform that can really go. Given that she's the first one we did expect to have a few things to correct before the production lines really start flowing. We did have a couple of things that we need to address but that's the way it is and we do have time to add the feedback to production. The only niggles we had were, 1. getting the 'top-down' spinnaker furler to work! 2. as RAW can fly the main hull the rudder blade was extended but this created a bit too much load for the rudder housing and we lost the bond between the cheek and the reinforcing band. 3. the Dyneema Spinnaker halyard jumped the sheave and broke the axle on the sheave.
1. Is still a Work In Progress, but on our last race we removed the furler in favour of a conventional hoist/drop and were MUCH faster for the effort!
2. This happened during the second race of the series just as we were happily flying upwind. It didn't sever from the boat but was just real wobbly and so we completed the rest of the series using only about 80% main sail.
3. Stuff Happens, even in paradise! Thin Dyneema can do that! A new arrangement on the Marstrom fitting will take care of future issues for production boats.
The photos here will show you a little about RAW what they won't show is how she can go when you do turn the wick up! Downwind we already knew she'd be good. But upwind was a question until we had something to measure against... Once she powers up, she really trucks and at high angles.
But perhaps the nicest surprise is... The way RAW handles the power! The ama's can really be pushed and the sail carrying power is extremely high. When we watch people sail her for the first time... We see the helmsman get into position and take the main sheet with them - everyone assumes she'll be a wild beast! But she's not! RAW has very good manners and never feels threatening! More wind equals more speed and very high angles of attack!
The results from the Neptune Regatta:
https://www.facebook.com/airplaytrimaran
Well the Race to Zero was RAW's first time to line up against anything. It's been an exciting year in Airplay Land getting the boat off Tony's design board and onto the water. True to the original idea of doing trialling before production, we are there. When we saw the plug of RAW sitting in the shop floor and saw the flat bottom, we sucked our breath in a figured she'd either be fantastic or a wood duck! Well after racing RAW for 300 miles in all sorts... We can say... We are extremely pleased with RAW. She's a super rigid platform that can really go. Given that she's the first one we did expect to have a few things to correct before the production lines really start flowing. We did have a couple of things that we need to address but that's the way it is and we do have time to add the feedback to production. The only niggles we had were, 1. getting the 'top-down' spinnaker furler to work! 2. as RAW can fly the main hull the rudder blade was extended but this created a bit too much load for the rudder housing and we lost the bond between the cheek and the reinforcing band. 3. the Dyneema Spinnaker halyard jumped the sheave and broke the axle on the sheave.
1. Is still a Work In Progress, but on our last race we removed the furler in favour of a conventional hoist/drop and were MUCH faster for the effort!
2. This happened during the second race of the series just as we were happily flying upwind. It didn't sever from the boat but was just real wobbly and so we completed the rest of the series using only about 80% main sail.
3. Stuff Happens, even in paradise! Thin Dyneema can do that! A new arrangement on the Marstrom fitting will take care of future issues for production boats.
The photos here will show you a little about RAW what they won't show is how she can go when you do turn the wick up! Downwind we already knew she'd be good. But upwind was a question until we had something to measure against... Once she powers up, she really trucks and at high angles.
But perhaps the nicest surprise is... The way RAW handles the power! The ama's can really be pushed and the sail carrying power is extremely high. When we watch people sail her for the first time... We see the helmsman get into position and take the main sheet with them - everyone assumes she'll be a wild beast! But she's not! RAW has very good manners and never feels threatening! More wind equals more speed and very high angles of attack!
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| Airplay RAW 30 trimaran in action at the Neptune Regatta, photo courtesy Marty Rijurkis |
Monday, 20 January 2014
Airplay RAW30 trimaran, sailing video in light conditions showing the boat being maneuvered through a tack
A note from the video uploaded by the Airplay trimarans crew:
A quiet sail up the West Johor Straits, zipping between Singapore and Malaysia. Nice breeze and good to see how the bow lifts coming out of a tack and getting going. Plenty of space in the cockpit for people too... That's Michael on the helm, Singapore's most prolific cat sailor... At 85 years of youth, he's our hero!
A quiet sail up the West Johor Straits, zipping between Singapore and Malaysia. Nice breeze and good to see how the bow lifts coming out of a tack and getting going. Plenty of space in the cockpit for people too... That's Michael on the helm, Singapore's most prolific cat sailor... At 85 years of youth, he's our hero!
Friday, 10 January 2014
Airplay RAW30 trimaran, photo gallery showing the boat folded at the dock
A gallery of photos has been published on the RAW30 facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.572755686146715.1073741836.543605899061694&type=1
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.572755686146715.1073741836.543605899061694&type=1
Tuesday, 7 January 2014
Tuesday, 19 November 2013
Airplay RAW30 trimaran facebook page launched
For ongoing updates and more photos of the RAW30 trimaran in build and sailing you can check out their facebook page here:
https://www.facebook.com/airplaytrimaran
https://www.facebook.com/airplaytrimaran
Thursday, 31 October 2013
Wednesday, 30 October 2013
Airplay RAW 30 trimaran more details emerge on sailing this exciting new Tony Grainger design
An update from Scott re: the Airplay RAW 30 trimaran an article on test sailing of the new design can be found here (the viewer takes a little time to load).
https://www.lucidpress.com/documents/viewer/4899-2a00-525d3351-86ca-03f20a009f9e
The first of the RAW 30's will be racing in December's Kings Cup in Thailand. It will be interesting as it will be right out of the box and never raced before. But the early indications look good.... More soon.
https://www.lucidpress.com/documents/viewer/4899-2a00-525d3351-86ca-03f20a009f9e
The first of the RAW 30's will be racing in December's Kings Cup in Thailand. It will be interesting as it will be right out of the box and never raced before. But the early indications look good.... More soon.
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| RAW30 trimaran in action, Photo Karen Otton |
Tuesday, 22 October 2013
Rocket Factory Trimarans, A preliminary update from Scott Cook on the RAW30's sailing performance
From the Rocket Factory Trimarans/Airplay RAW 30 website:
http://www.rocketfactorytrimarans.com/airplay-trimarans/airplay-raw30/raw-performance/
Scott McCook was in Xiamen from 10th to 13th of October to test sail and demonstrate the RAW30. Scott has written a detailed review with some great pics by Karen Otton which will be published in due course. The following is an extract of one of Scott's emails to me shortly after he sailed the boat.
Tony Grainger:
Day 1 was in light breeze of around 6 knots but the Raw could pump up to 15 even in that!
Day 2 a much better with breeze over 20 knots + of breeze! Just to let things settle in, we tried out a double reef which worked really well and the Raw was powered up even like that.
Day 3, just a few hours ago, with breeze up to 20 knots and a single reef. Well the Raw really showed how powerful she really is! Was a brilliant day with Raw pegging 21.5 knots! Its weird how you now come down to 15 knots and think you are not moving.
read more here
http://www.rocketfactorytrimarans.com/airplay-trimarans/airplay-raw30/raw-performance/
Scott McCook was in Xiamen from 10th to 13th of October to test sail and demonstrate the RAW30. Scott has written a detailed review with some great pics by Karen Otton which will be published in due course. The following is an extract of one of Scott's emails to me shortly after he sailed the boat.
Tony Grainger:
Day 1 was in light breeze of around 6 knots but the Raw could pump up to 15 even in that!
Day 2 a much better with breeze over 20 knots + of breeze! Just to let things settle in, we tried out a double reef which worked really well and the Raw was powered up even like that.
Day 3, just a few hours ago, with breeze up to 20 knots and a single reef. Well the Raw really showed how powerful she really is! Was a brilliant day with Raw pegging 21.5 knots! Its weird how you now come down to 15 knots and think you are not moving.
read more here
Monday, 14 October 2013
Tony Grainger designed Raw 30 airplay trimaran sailing photos released
Some photos have been posted on rocket factory trimarans of the new RAW 30 trimaran sailing. These new trimarans are being produced by Hakes Hudson Yacht and Marine.
http://www.rocketfactorytrimarans.com/
http://www.rocketfactorytrimarans.com/
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| Airplay RAW30, photo Karen Otten |
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| Airplay RAW 30, photo Karen Otten |
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| Airplay RAW30 trimaran, photo Karen Otten |
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