Possible tiller, rudder, keel and bulb components for your i550 build.

Possible help with plywood kits for your i550 build

Go with Phil’s Foils / Competition Composites Inc for proven speed and quality, allowing you to concentrate on the construction of your dream ride.

Tillers : these are often an after-thought and made of fragile and high maintenance wood. Not to mention, these being heavy too (ours weigh less than 1lb).

We offer the following :

a) Glass over foam tiller in high gloss white Imron $325

b) Carbon over foam tiller in high gloss white Imron $375

c) Carbon over foam tiller in clear coat finish $475

Rudders : Again this is an open design for the builder to look at, so we will happily take your design and mill cores to suit. We will apply our years of foils experience as needed to stop any terrible mistakes too! We offer a standard rudder, a molded rudder or twin rudders to our specification (see pictures), in the following states :

a) Rudder core in wood and foam (milled accurately) $300

b) Rudder core, laminated (ex-vacuum bag) $600

c) Rudder fully finished in high gloss white Imron $950

d) Rudder molded $700

e) Carbon fiber gudgeons $240

f) Optional racing wet sand (addition) $120

Keel Struts : We have a lot of experience in dealing with these on many different sports boats. We recommend a wood and foam composite core, and no stringer needed due to the light nature of the keel bulb. We offer a standard keel strut to your specification and following the i550 box rule, ready drilled to accept keel bulb fittings, in the following configurations :

a) Keel strut core $450

b) Keel strut, laminated (ex-vacuum bag) $900

c) Keel strut fully finished in primer (ready for barrier coat) $1,200

Example fixed keel strut shown with plug for keel

bulb mold and keel mount bolts.

Keel strut in place.

Keel Bulbs : Again, these are open to your design, so we will happily mill you a set of foam plugs to take to your local foundry to have them cast this for you. We can accept designs in most file formats (using RhinoCAD 3D ourselves), all the way down to a back of napkin sketch.

a) Pair (two halves) milled keel bulb foam plugs $120

Example bulb –

We are very keen on the i550 as a concept and design, so can offer many other foil based products and services to you. For example, we can cut accurate milled templates to go with your own foils to make finishing less of a hit and miss affair. Call us for details.

Bought Plans??? : These plywood kits are large and complex, with many templated cuts being required. Get it wrong, and your build becomes very frustrating. If you want help cutting these from your plans, we can use our 3-axis milling machine to repeatedly cut these to within 1/16” accuracy across the 8x4 sheets. We can cut some or all required sheets (5 ply 6mm Meranti BS6566).

a) Milling of plywood sheets $<on application>

Example of plywood kit

as milled –

Please don’t hesitate to get in touch with me (Dave Bradly) at CCI. We are based in eastern Canada, so can ship to almost anywhere in North America (or the world). Our websites are :

www.fastcomposites.ca and www.philsfoils.com

or you can email me at

sales@fastcomposites.ca and sales@philsfoils.com

or good old fashioned voice at

+1 (613) 599 6951