{"id":669,"date":"2005-07-19T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-19T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.multiplast.eu\/groupama-iii-central-hull-assembled\/"},"modified":"2005-07-19T13:43:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-19T11:43:00","slug":"groupama-iii-central-hull-assembled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.multiplast.eu\/en\/groupama-iii-central-hull-assembled\/","title":{"rendered":"Groupama III. Central hull assembled"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-family: arial black,avant garde; font-size: 12pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-368\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; float: left;\" title=\"The main hull of maxi trimaran Groupama III assembled (\u00a9 Multiplast)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.multiplast.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/07\/La-coque-centrale-du-maxi-trimaran-Groupama-III-assemble.jpg\" alt=\"La-coque-centrale-du-maxi-trimaran-Groupama-III-assemble\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.multiplast.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/07\/La-coque-centrale-du-maxi-trimaran-Groupama-III-assemble.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.multiplast.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/07\/La-coque-centrale-du-maxi-trimaran-Groupama-III-assemble-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/span>Groupama III. Central hull assembled<span style=\"font-family: arial black,avant garde;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial black,avant garde; font-size: 12pt;\"><br \/>______________________________________________________________________<\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>According to the build schedule of the 103 ft long (31.50 m) maxi-trimaran which got underway in the Multiplast yard in December 2004, the central hull has just been assembled. A high precision operation.<\/strong><br \/>The two parts of the carbon Nomex sandwich half hulls were made separately. Cured in an oven to 100\u00b0C several times, they have undergone dilations and been subjected to mechanical loads which go hand in hand with the differences in temperature.<br \/>In order to ensure that the desired post-curing volume required by the designers (Van Peteghem \/ Lauriot-Pr\u00e9vost)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">is complied with and that the assembly is undertaken to within the nearest millimetre, each half-hull undergoes a laser beam geometric inspection.<br \/>Once the two half-hulls are perfectly in line, the assembly being done horizontally, the join is made on the inside and the outside using 7 \u00be inch wide (200 mm) bi-axial carbon fibre cloth.<br \/>When the central hull&#8217;s join is sound, the yard&#8217;s prototype workers add the bulkheads and flooring to make the whole rigid. Only then will the central hull be turned the right way round and blocked vertically on its cradles as the crossbeams are prepared. Construction of the beams is currently underway and the front one will be added at the start of October. In the meantime, the central hull will be handed over to the finishing team in charge of getting it ready for the paint stage.<br \/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-369\" style=\"margin-top: 3px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; float: left;\" title=\"Closing of the main hull (\u00a9 Multiplast)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.multiplast.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/07\/Fermeture-de-la-coque-centrale.jpg\" alt=\"Fermeture-de-la-coque-centrale\" width=\"340\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.multiplast.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/07\/Fermeture-de-la-coque-centrale.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.multiplast.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/07\/Fermeture-de-la-coque-centrale-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-370\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 3px; float: right;\" title=\"Display of the two half hulls before stratification (\u00a9 Multiplast)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.multiplast.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/07\/Presentation-des-deux-demi-coques-avant-pose-de-la-liaison.jpg\" alt=\"Presentation-des-deux-demi-coques-avant-pose-de-la-liaison\" width=\"340\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.multiplast.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/07\/Presentation-des-deux-demi-coques-avant-pose-de-la-liaison.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.multiplast.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/07\/Presentation-des-deux-demi-coques-avant-pose-de-la-liaison-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Groupama III. Central hull assembled______________________________________________________________________ According to the build schedule of the 103 ft long (31.50 m) maxi-trimaran which got underway in the Multiplast yard in December 2004, the central hull has just been assembled. A high precision operation.The two parts of the carbon Nomex sandwich half hulls were made separately. Cured in an oven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives-composite"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Groupama III. 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