Boat Construction Materials

[brian eiland]

Just ran across an interesting excerpt from the Fossett's maxi-cat Cheyenne's log:
" Nick, our S. African crew member and Adrienne our navigator have been rewiring /even rebuilding our B&G electronic system all morning. Being an alloy Nomex cored yacht with carbon laminates all mixed with salt water makes for perfect electrolysis conditions which, coupled with the general
onboard dampness, is just playing havoc with our instruments. Not an area
I'd like to play with. Impressive work!"

Brian commented:
I was surprised long ago that someone would consider mixing alum honeycomb with carbon skins....not an ideal mixture