OPAC: high-tech carbon windscreen
The OPAC “Yachting Division“, a leader in carbon processing for creation of yacht cover structures, adds yet another product to its already expanding range. The Turin-based company advances in the industrial trend of exploiting its know-how acquired from the company’s car-manufacturing branch, drawing from time-honoured, high profile, carbon car-body manufacturing.OPAC has just produced a windscreen 100% in carbon fibre.
Design for manufacture was perfected on site by company technical personnel, in conformity with construction requirements.
The Opac team is equipped to re-examine the mathematics, the shape, of the product based on customer requirements – irrespective of whether such requirements come from the yard or from the eventual owner. The windscreen will, hence, be customized depending on the shape and size of the yacht cover it is to be fitted to. The strictly aesthetic presentation of the windscreen is also “custom made”: the carbon-look is evident in the finish the material yields, even if the customer may prefer a simple composite solution in the colour of his choice.
The product was designed bearing in mind overall improvement and the concept of an exclusive, all-Italian “boat product” – qualities sought nowadays by every yard whose aim is to make an impression on international markets, as it endeavours to challenge the crisis.
The fibre-finish windscreen ensures strength and lightness, properties apt to increase the technical and functional potential not only of the component itself but also of the overall vessel. The effect of the look is truly technological and of great aesthetic impact, with clear-cut lines and aggression proper to great open sports yachts.
The company, which employs a workforce with ever increasing specialization in this type of process, envisages the creation of windscreen forms to satisfy customer demands for optimum integration with vessel design and finish. Geometry and dimensions will be decided upon during project discussion with the client, the aim being design harmony so as meet with the most disparate of requests.
The first study for this windscreen was conceived on the basis of the cover for the “Riva Iseo”, a boat the company already provides an automatically operating hood for.
