Registered: July 2002 Location: Milford Haven, Wales, UK Posts: 6
Designed and built at Pembrokeshire College’s MITEC Centre at Milford Haven by students on the BSc course in Sail & Powerboat Studies, this is a collaborative project with the Owen Clarke Design Group. The yacht has been built using advanced composites techniques utilising glass, carbon fibre and epoxy resins. Classe Mini is a development class with very few limitations; the brief has been to produce a lightweight structure that is strong, durable and fast. Yachts in this class compete biennially in the Mini Transat event sailed single-handed from France to South America or the Caribbean.
Registered: June 2001 Location: Great Lakes Posts: 1,154
August-15-2002 5:03am
Rating: 10
Thanks for posting MITEC - what a great photo too!
Stephen Ditmore Senior Member
Registered: June 2001 Location: New York Posts: 971
February-24-2003 6:27pm
Was Mark Mills involved in the design of this boat or any other open class racer?
ywainap Junior Member
Registered: October 2002 Location: Southampton Posts: 14
February-27-2003 7:45am
Rating: 10
I'm studying Yacht and Powercraft Design at southampton institute, but now i feel like i missed an oppurtunity in the west wales course! If only their advertising was better!
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blared ALFA
Registered: August 2005 Location: Houston-Izmir Posts: 1,782
Registered: July 2006 Location: North East UK Posts: 1
February-6-2007 6:15am
A very striking image combining the epic grandeur of the classical sculpture with the high-tec graphic-design of the boat - especially effective as it is poised as though floating in the air.
With your permission I shall borrow this image for my desktop. (I do not take the harvesting of other's work as a given)
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