Carbon Fiber

[slinkeey]

Ok,

Now I am probably going off the deep end, but here we go..

Do you know if Carbon Fiber was ever used in a champion boat for structural reasons? Maybe even carbon fiber incorporated into the balsa cored composites?

[jerzia]

No idea here, but seriously, after the amount of posts you've made worrying about your transom, I'd sell her and update. I'd rather run er' and go fish.

[slinkeey]

I just bought it in September.. No way I will sell...

[pmgoffjr]

Lance was looking at it, but I don't think they ever built a full hull with it. He was pretty convinced that wasn't the direction they wanted to go, he was more convince of a vacuum process using the multi directional materials was the future.

[slinkeey]

Here is why I ask.
Carbon Fiber, when compressed, will read a negative resistive value on a DMM like I am getting when I measure my transom from Tiedown to Ladder.

I might also be picking up measuring EFI/RFI from my fluorescent lighting being in the MOhm realm.

I am guessing that Champion already ventured into the vacuum Process. Baltek strongly recommends a vacuum when laminating end grain balsa.