Development
Our first desgn & build was around 1980 – it did not go well, but the dreams of 10 year-olds often don’t. From 2015 things got more serious, after everyone had gained life experience (very good & very bad-which are the two types worth having). Discovering that the world was providing tools every 10 year old now dreams of …. (NvME drives, CAD, CNC machines, Micro-controllers, Wifi) :
Around 2019 we seriously set about design, and bought a lot of fiberglass, computers, CNC equipment & the best 3DPrinter available at that time.
- We decided most things about boat-building, design and manufacture could be vastly improved.
- We evaluated every available CAD Package
- 6 years later, we’re halfway satisfied.
- 3D printers have come a very long way
- CFD became available, which greatly accelerates boat design
- FEA doesn’t beat stressing something until it breaks (trust us, we do, & we video it), but it can tell you a lot about structure & strength
- In 2023 we
- reached out further afield to find materials not commonly available within our shores, to created an uncompromisingly lightweight & strong boat
- got seriously into the world of microcontrollers
- burnt through enough 3D filament to make an envornmentalist cry (iteration is better [and faster] at 15cm size, than 15m)
- finished solving the headaches of VARTM resin infusion because
- we had experienced the “fun” of finding leaks (and we have material of what happens when you don’t)
- We like inventing
- Bodging it painfully once might get a quick result, but every copy would be different, and 100+ copies (of everything) will eventually be needed
- We have a thing for quality. The nearest thing for help & support while Offshore Sailing would be space travel – you can’t just get out and thumb-a-ride or walk home. Oops, it just slipped out (But unlike others this is fairly widely known – well done Colin !!). We are archive collectors in our spare time.
- If you don’t have to watch it, it’s a great time to sleep
- In 2024 we have “honed” (see more on the member’s community forums)
- E-Commerce Website
- Global logistics
- Own composite-technology products
- Partially accepted that we might put more materials into boxes & parcels than we will put onto completed boats.
Trade & Retail composites & contributions
- We weren’t completely happy with the composite suppliers in the UK, so we filled in some missing pieces in supply-chains.
- We weren’t happy with the infusion process, so we took a few years to get it right.
That means we can be very very helpful to others in the UK
Retail, Home, Hobby
- These are the ingredients for Composites Crazy = non-production-line ; composite-mad enthusiasts and semi-pros
- A community for home & small business infusion materials & technologies.
Technologies, tools, materials - 2Kg of cloth, approx. 3Kg overall infusions with super-amazing-easy infusion advancements is good, but for 800Kg – 2500Kg boats we needed something a little more “industrial. We took the best of the ‘table-top’ sized infusion advancements and applied every technology & gave it an industrial make-over.
Volume Trade, Distributor
AT composites was needed to build a more specific hi-tech production-focussed community around infusion Materials & technologies. A professional production community, small, medium, large companies involved in multiple unique/custom projects or smaller numbers of large product composite infusions (100Kg – 10,000 Kg)
Contact
- You can join, and find us on the community forums which are now live.
- The 2nd best approach would be to email assist@AdvancedTrimarans.com (again, we do the kind of hours which don’t fit most people’s ordinary daily schedule).
- Or you can write to us at our registered address, which will probably take 14 days longer than email: 128 City Road, London. EC1V 2NX
Phone or textSorry, we are (usually) just far too busy for that