In my humble opinion this is one of the reasons the Molinari race boats were the race-boats to covet. Not only the aerodynamic lines of the early 1970’s race hulls, but also the detail to weight savings.
In the Como race shop, when I would visit the second floor, I admired the workmanship on the wooden boats. The simple fact, where the carpenter would lay an uncut stringer on the boat’s frame, and pencil mark every cross-section (joint) where the stringer and frame member made contact. And then he would take the stringer to the router table, and voila, shave excessive weight off the stringer.
Small details that increase performance with little extra man hours revealed to me, that Molinari race hulls are a force to be reckoned with. And walking and looking at other hull manufactures in the European race pits, I did not see the same weight savings as their competitor, Renato Molinari, instilled in his constructed race hulls.
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