Goetz engineers and laminators worked with Zyvex Technologies on the Piranha Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) in the 4th quarter of 2010. The Piranha USV is the largest boat built from nano-enhanced materials created by Zyvex Technologies and is designed to perform a wide variety of missions like anti-piracy, search and rescue, submarine hunting, and harbor patrol.
Update - Super light nano-carbon boat completes sea testing
The sea trial was performed after six months of testing. The trial was an approximate 600 nautical mile rough-weather sea test off the shores of Washington and Oregon. According to Zyvex, a conventional aluminum or fiberglass boat would have consumed 50 gallons or more per hour at cruise speed, while test results showed that the Piranha consumed only 12 gallons of fuel per hour while cruising at 25 knots. more
Congratulations to Dan Meyers and the crew on Numbers for winning the 2011 Key West Race Week Mini Maxi – IRC. “Numbers” – USA 119 is a Judel/Vrolijk designed 66 built in 2007 by Goetz. She was the smallest boat in the Mini Maxi class.
1. Numbers, USA119, Daniel Meyers
2. Shockwave, USA60272, George Sakellaris
3. Bella Mente, USA45, Hap Fauth
4. Titan, USA60075, William Koch
Goetz is building two custom cupolas and a weathervane for the Staten Island Children’s Museum. The male mold (pictured) is 5.5m in length. Here the part is getting a balsa core fitted before the inner skin is laid up. The complex shape will be laminated in a wetpreg fire retardant epoxy system.
Anema & Core USA 38008 is a fast T52 built by Goetz in 2006 and originally named Platoon. Designed by Judel/Vrolijk, she is based in Annapolis and skippered by owner / driver Ennio Staffini. Congratulations to the whole crew!
