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| Carbon Tiger |
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| Brief Description: Prototype monococque eight, the first made without wood, made from carbon fibre |
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| Subject Date: 1976 |
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| Creator: John Vigurs |
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| Owner: River and Rowing Museum |
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| Contributor: River and Rowing Museum |
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| Full Description: Racing eight, prototype carbon fibre boat. This boat was designed by John Vigurs and moulded at British Aerospace. Weybridge in 1976. It was tried by the British Olympic crew and their coach, Bob Janousek, at Thorpe Water Park adn taken do the Olympic Games in Montreal under wraps. Equipmenty breakage caused the crew to distrust it, and it remained in reserve. The strength of its materials and the rigidity of the monocoque hull dispensed with a frame. Within a few years of its appearance, composite materials based on carbon replaced wood from racing boat construction |
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| Place: Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire |
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| Dimensions: Height: 1920mm, Width: 2560mm |
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| Subject: River, Thames, Enjoying |
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| Content Type: Artifact |
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| Location: River and Rowing Museum, Henley on Thames |
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| Unique ID: tp-rr-m67-i-00-001.jpg |
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| IPR: ThamesPilot |
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