Some more info on the issue.
Please forward this e-mail on, as I can only receive and have not been able to send out to the Association
I own Santana USA 5454 which is moored in the UK on the Solent, I have replaced my "floors", which were a maghany (hardwood) in 2004, virtually a year after bringing the boat over from the States, she is Capo 30 and has a deep elliptical keel which was designed by Allan Andrews and put on the boat in 1996
I hit a sunken underwater object offshore of Plymouth, and put into Dartmouth, hauled and saw only the crack near the junction of the keel to hull, which is very common and was always working on my Hawkfarm in San Francisco.
On the return to Cowes we started taking on lots of water, and hauled again, to find that the "floors" had delaminated, so we dropped the keel cut the bottom out to the gel coat and re laminated replacing the old glass build up with Carbon, and built new "floors'' with a specified high density foam resin impregnated and wrapped with Carbon. We also replaced the small rudder, with a new larger rudder very similar in design to Carl's last design for the 911, again it is done with Carbon, and put on a French Design Bearing which the designer uses on his Open 40's, The rudder was designed by Merf Owen of Owen Clarke, who did Ellen McArthurs Open 60 kingfisher. At Moody's where the work was being done, the builders of Moody Yachts mentioned that they discontinued using Mag. "floors" (which are really the hull ribs) as the oil in the wood causes de lamination over time. Santana is a 1984 build, at Costa Mesa in LA.
All the rigging and decklayout has been redesigned by my daughter Ashley Perrin, at yachtracingmanagement.com
she is based in San Francisco.
The boat is very fast and stable upwind, and wins under the IRC rule, but then with the new keel she was winning in
the states under IMS and PHRF. Hard to slow a fast lady.
Best Regards
Bill Perrin,
Santana USA 5454