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Strong and Black.  Did some shopping for carbon fiber yesterday.  The cloth came from Fiberglass Supply. The pultrusion came from Goodwinds LLC.  These are both local Washington companies that supply projects world wide.  The cloth will support high load areas such as the akas, mast step, mainsheet beams, etc.  The pultrusion will replace unidirectional carbon in many places such as the akas, rudders and dagger foil.

400 gsm (12 osy) bi-directional knit.

200 gsm (6 osy) woven coth.

Pultruded flat rod.

The picture of the pultrusion shows 2000 feet in four 500 foot rolls. I have not weighed it, but is probably is about 45 pounds. Paul tells me that this is 1.5 times stronger than the same thickness of wet laminated unidirectional.  Quality is higher and more consistent.