A cover for protecting the hulls... and the environment
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Publié le
11/07/2023
Par
Emmanuel van Deth
Numéro :
SP20
Parution :
Aug.
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2023
The backstory to this young company, headed up by Lucie Doriez, dates back some time. It was her father, Bernard, a world expert in outdoor textile engineering and also a yachtsman, who developed a hull protection system to dispense with bottom paint. The principle is simple: custom-make a cover that hugs the hull in such a way as to deprive the surface of light, so that it remains clean even without antifouling. The cover is slipped beneath the hull (the after end of it is weighted with lead) and then adjusted with straps, which are then tied off on the guardwires. The advantages are numerous…
