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Old 11-15-2011 | 09:10 AM
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I spent several years as an aircraft mechanic at MIA, and worked flightline damage repairs daily, and 3 or 4 direct runway crashes, I never saw a windscreen that *tore* away like these did, we did have heavy hail and bird damage, but not a *tear* situation...
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Old 11-15-2011 | 09:12 AM
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Originally Posted by BUIZILLA
I guess my basic simple question is > does the current offshore sanction bodies have a windscreen spec for thickness/composition/material for open or enclosed cockpits?
There are many organisations and there fore many specs:
Here are a few:

WPPA Class 1 and X-cat: Polycarbonate min 12 mm
UIM 3C: Polycarbonate or similar, tandem min 7.9 mm side-by-side min 9.5 mm
LUCAS OIL DRAG BOAT RACING SERIES: Polycarbonate min 0.5" before hot forming
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Old 11-15-2011 | 09:18 AM
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Request to all..lets take the tech stuff to appropriate thread...

http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/g...struction.html
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Old 11-15-2011 | 09:21 AM
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Originally Posted by thirdchildhood
"Take your question direct to Skater. The general internet public won't know the answer."
Boat racers ain't the general internet public...WE THINK!
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Old 11-15-2011 | 10:14 AM
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Boat racers ain't the general internet public...WE THINK!
SO U ARE !!!!!

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Old 11-15-2011 | 09:13 PM
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Excuse my possible ignorance here as I am not a plastics expert. Why are they not using Lexan on the canopy windows instead of polycarbonate?? There must be some reason I am unaware of?

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Old 11-15-2011 | 09:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Raylar
Excuse my possible ignorance here as I am not a plastics expert. Why are they not using Lexan on the canopy windows instead of polycarbonate?? There must be some reason I am unaware of?

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Lexan IS polycarbonate.
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Old 11-15-2011 | 10:04 PM
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Told you I wasn't a plastics expert. I learn something new almost every day!

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Old 11-15-2011 | 10:28 PM
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[QUOTE=MikeyFIN;3550130]The Stuffs are plus violent rollovers are high G impacts up to 25G was measured for example at Casiraghis crash.

Yes they are somewhat common. Bobby Saccenti had one for example in the Apache cat back in the day.
Do not recall the death causes of Mark Lavin and Stefano Casiraghi but wouldn' t count it out.QUOTE]

Probably doesn't matter much but I recall Casiraghi's cat the old KAPPA as a stand-up boat not a sit down. The cockpit had a sling in it where you rested your rear end and kind of swung in it with feet on the ground. If it was rough you could use that sling and stand behind it so when you stood your legs couldn't kick out front. Don't know for a fact but recall talk that was how he was in the boat so when it stuffed it could not get thrown out easily, kind of folded around the sling where as the co-pilot was thrown out of the boat - again 20 years ago?
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Old 11-16-2011 | 07:33 AM
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Boat racers ain't the general internet public...WE THINK!
I know! That quote about the "general internet public" was directly from the person who posted the question. He told me to "call Peter at Skater" because the "general internet public won't know"! lol

Thanks again for the pics and for not watermarking them.
I'm going to print the whole sequence on 8x10 photo paper as soon as I get more ink.
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