Alpha 42 News Blog

Photo shows designer of the Alpha 42 catamaran, Gregor Tarjan testing the forward trampoline sitting area. (It will be more comfortable with the netting and some cushions) The relentless work on the deck plug is continuing at full pace on the main floor of the assembly shop. The...

As the Alpha Team has finished joining both hulls to the center bridgedeck, Nydacore panels are being laminated to the inner flanks and work on the forward deck plug has commenced. See photos below.

Last weeks saw the completion of the tooling and release of the bridgedeck. Above photo shows placement against port hull. Alpha Yachts have also progressed with the production of the roof plug which can be seen in the below photo gallery.

Marc Anassis (president of Alpha Yachts), Wendy & Drew Scheifele with a big smile. This young family of 4 are living the dream many of have. They are selling their home in Texas and taking a 3 year sabbatical from civilization. They plan to live aboard their Alpha 42...

Yesterday for the very first time the port hull was joined with the starboard hull in the assembly shop. They are now only separated by the completed bridgedeck mold which will yield the finished platform in the coming days. There was a small celebration as Gunther and Doris (our...

Work is progressing well as today the large bridgedeck mold was released. The finish is beautiful and there were no flaws noticed. In the coming 3 weeks there will be allot of visual progress. The bridgedeck will be completed in the next 7 days, the major bulkheads located and...

Completion of the bridgedeck and carbon bowsprit mold. Note the perfect fairness of the stringers even in areas which will hardly be seen. See gallery below:

 

The second hull of the Alpha 42 was unmolded and (no-surprise) came out as perfect as the first one. Work on hull Nr 3 for our second boat started just after the first float was moved to the new building. See photo gallery below: