"Des Jours Meilleurs" took 7 years to be built, with very little money, and with lots of modifications due to her uniqueness. I thanks all the people who helped me finalize this proa.

The rudder were vacuum-built in Airex foam/multiply/epoxy/glass-fiber, with carbon reinforcements at the rudder stock. 140 unidirectional glass, 400 grammes per square meters, with 45 degrees hatch carbon, were used at the periphery to make the rudder stock, which was made under vacuum. The rudder well were molded on the rudders. The outside coating being graphite, in order to reduce friction and abrasion. This is was is done on 60 feet trimarans.

The masts are butt-jointed ribbands of Red Cedar wood, epoxied, with a 45 degrees hatch fiberglass of 420 grammes per square meters at the periphery, cooked at 60 degrees Celsius. The trailing edge is in multiply, so as to screw the aluminium rail of the mainsails.

The main hull was made with 3 plies of mahogany of 4 millimeters, epoxied. The beams are butt-jointed hemlocks.
Everything else (bridge and float) are in multiply epoxied.

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Vue générale

Mise à l'eau