Hungarian company Pauger Carbon is producing the Russell Coutts 44 racing yacht using carbon composite technologies. Amanda Jacob visited the company's boatyard near Budapest. Pauger was founded in the early 1990s by Hungarian sailor Denes Paulovits, initially making 8-15 m sailing boats from glass fibre reinforced plastic (GRP). These included the Pauger 70, a 15 m long racing boat built on a balsa core. Prior to this, Paulovits designed and built composite tuning options (spoilers, modified bow or transom pieces and rig elements) for cruising yachts. When the marine industry started to use carbon fibre, Paulovits decided to move on from fibreglass boat building and launched Pauger Carbon to specialise in the design and production of carbon composite masts and rigging. The company's production steadily grew from one-off projects to serial production, with products increasing both in numbers and in size. The Solaris 40 - an Italian one-design class - features a carbon Pauger rig, including mast, boom and spannaker boom. Pauger created a purpose-built mast-building facility featuring a 30 m long oven that enables the post-cure of a 30 m mast.


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    Title :

    Hungarian company builds racing yacht


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Reinforced Plastics ; 50 , 9 ; 28-29


    Publication date :

    2006


    Size :

    2 Seiten, 3 Bilder




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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