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Roanoke Island ,N.C. | I just read this: NACRA performance cats just moved their fiberglass production to Thailand. Here: http://www.sailmagazine.com/racing/ruling_the_rules_of_physics/ Hadn't heard anything about this. HHmmmmmm? Morrelli talks about the new F-20 some also. F-20 page. http://www.nacra.us/
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Gainesville, FL 32607 USA | Lifting foils eh? On a Morrelli and Melvin NACRA 20 eh? Funny thing...I saw lifting foils on a bunch of A-cats just 2 days ago in Islamorada!!
Now- they don't call em lifting foils on these development class boats, but that is what they are...
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Roanoke Island ,N.C. | That's very interesting because I asked Performance about that rumor and they said it wasn't true and that they were just moving to a new facility in the same town. They have in fact moved to the new building in Santa Ana. Maybe it's only the European models or something like that.Be nice to know the scoop. I was gonna call you.
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Brisvegas | I was told a couple of weeks before Xmas by someone who would know that Performance US were moving manufacture to Thailand. They were offloading all their excess gear at that time to move to a new site which was not set up for fibreglass manufacture. They had 3 sets of bare A2 hulls they were trying to flog at exhorbitant prices. Pretty funny really as the A2 hulls are way outdated.
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Naples, FL | scratch the lifting foils (for now). Update the sailplan and watch those things go!
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Austin, TX | I was told a couple of weeks before Xmas by someone who would know that Performance US were moving manufacture to Thailand. They were offloading all their excess gear at that time to move to a new site which was not set up for fibreglass manufacture. They had 3 sets of bare A2 hulls they were trying to flog at exhorbitant prices. Pretty funny really as the A2 hulls are way outdated. Maybe that's why they told me that it was going to take 3 months to get new decks for my N20
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Cairns FNQ | I've just been to Nacra Oz, looks to me like they are keeping production here for now.
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Roanoke Island ,N.C. | I've just been to Nacra Oz, looks to me like they are keeping production here for now. Well, that's good news for you, maybe he just meant U.S. production. It'd be nice if someone would come forward and confirm or deny and maybe spell out what this means for quality, prices and shipping times. Not like they were fast or cheap before.
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Cairns FNQ | Nacra Australia are a small family business, where i can talk to the guys that built my boat (I'm buying another very soon) whilst they aren't the well oiled marketing and merchandising machine that Hobie are, The back up support and service is unparallelled. They didn't even know me and have sent me magic marine parts before I've paid for them, as they knew I was racing on the weekend and needed them "yesterday". I paid for them as soon as i had the account details on the invoice. They are fantastic.
They are neither cheap nor slow in Australia, but the they do ooze quality and service.
I too would be interested in hearing what is happening, isn't that what Nacra is about?
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