Class Globe 5.80
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Globe Races
The ClassGlobe 5.80 is the brainchild of Don McIntyre organiser of the Ocean Globe and Golden Globe races.
Don McIntyre describes the ClassGlobe 8.50 as “the people’s boat”!
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Certainly from what we have seen of the hull design anyone handy with a jigsaw should be able to cut one out of marine plywood, stitch and glue with epoxy resin in just over 500 hours and then sail-race single or double-handed across the bay or an ocean or two.
Environmental friendly by design
Help Needed!
Hull No. 6
We have received our copy of the plans for hull No. 6 where we are currently working through the 2D image files and putting together a 3D CAD drawing to fully understand the construction with the ambition to start cutting out the bulkheads over the summer, followed by assemby during the autumn – winter months 2020.
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Cut-Shape-Glue-Clamp-Paint-Launch-Sail
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- 8mm, 10mm & 20mm marine plywood construction
- Aluminium mast and boom sections
- Covered with a fibreglass layer
- Epoxy paint finished
- Fabricated keel
- Dacron sails
Schedule
All going well following the circumnavigation of the UK in the spring-summer of 2021, the boat will head out on the first Class Globe 5.80 Transat in November 2021 followed by the Azores race in June – July 2022 as part of its warm-up races for the round the world Class Globe 5.80 2024 race, which will conclude this amazing adventure.
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