Alpha 42 News Blog

After months of fairing and sanding the hull plug of the Alpha 42 catamaran is finally ready to receive her mold. The Alpha Yacht crew have labored for many weeks to remove even the slightest imperfection and on close inspection a tolerance of less than 1/32nd of an inch was...

This is the final stage where the crew starts sanding the plug with 480 grit sandpaper and eventually ends up with the ultra fine 1200…which basically feels like regular paper. Thereafter the plug is checked a final time for perfection and then it is being compounded and waxed.

Months of endless sanding, fairing, filling, sanding, fairing, filling sanding, fairing, filling… ok you got that…until one day a mirror smooth surface of the Alpha 42 catamaran will appear. It takes allot of sweat, manpower and self control to repeat these tedious...

Flo Tarjan and Marc Anassis standing infront of the famous White Ghost statue created by Yoshitomo Maras and realized by Alpha Yachts. White Ghost was commissioned by the Japanese artist for New York’s Park Avenue where it was exhibited.

Marc Anassis and Mike hard at work starting the tedious lofting process. In today’s world where builders usually send out their CAD drawings to specialized 3D mills to shape the molds via computer, Alpha Yachts employs old world methods. Accuracy of less than 3 mm even when...

Gregor Tarjan of Aeroyacht Ltd and Marc Anassis NA. of Alpha Yachts standing infront of the just started platform which will become the plug of the long awaited ALPHA 42 catamaran.

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