All Composites articles

  • Composites could open up the field for more challenging hull forms SK
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    Composites Part 2: New demands, new shapes

    2025-04-15T13:50:00Z

    With the recent moves toward new fuels and batteries, it might be high time to consider what composite builds can offer, particularly with their potential for weight savings and novel architecture, writes Stevie Knight.

  • FISH composite workboat with stern drives
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    Composite workboats: Fact, fiction and form

    2025-03-31T17:15:00Z

    Composites have a lot to offer the commercial maritime world, but haven’t there been issues with strength, size, weight and above all, cost? Stevie Knight has found some straightforward answers alongside some interesting, slightly trickier ones.

  • Ultimate Boats M Class leisure boat 4
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    Recyclable workboats to be unveiled at Seawork

    2023-06-07T12:44:00Z

    Glasgow boat builder Ultimate Boats will unveil two new recyclable workboats at Seawork

  • The Port of Dover needed six bespoke suspended walkways to be built beneath its piers to be used for inspections and maintenance
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    Non-slip port walkways

    2022-01-24T13:35:00Z

    A specialist composites manufacturer has manufactured suspended walkways for one of the UK’s busiest ports

  • The latest Silenseas mast was built in sections using a standardized production process
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    Carbon prepregs for Silenseas mast

    2022-01-12T12:49:00Z

    Composites company Hexcel, has announced the successful completion of a 34m HexPly carbon fibre prepreg mast for the evaluation stage of a commercial sail power project.