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Building Chispa

starting from scratch

As Chispa was the first of the newly designed 36ft catamarans Peter Dean built, a new mould had to be constructed before anything else.

completed hull in dean shed

At last we were able to see the shape and size of Chispa emerging in ghostly white.

Jan major decisions concerned safety and ability for ocean crossings. Most sytems were duplicated in one way or another.

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