Super Light-Weight Nano-Carbon Fiber Boat Piranha Completes Sea Trials Demonstrating Record Fuel Efficiency

SEATTLE, COLUMBUS, Ohio, and WASHINGTON, April 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Zyvex Technologies announced that its 54' boat named Piranha completed sea trials early this morning near Puget Sound in the Pacific Ocean, demonstrating record fuel efficiency. After six months of extensive testing, the Piranha completed its final sea trial – an approximate 600 nautical mile (nm) rough-weather sea test off the shores of Washington and Oregon. Piranha finished the tests in time to travel for its debut at the Sea Air Space show near Washington, DC, on April 11th.

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Zyvex and Piranha featured in Marine News - Seakeeper Gyro

Source: Marine News

http://www.digitalwavepublishing.com/pubs/nwm/marinenews/201103/undefined?pgno=11

Zyvex Exhibiting at PACOM Conference

Zyvex Technologies will be exhibiting at the 2011 Pacific Operational Science & Technology Symposium in Honolulu, HI from March 14th to March 17th. Details about the event can be found at http://www.ndia.org/meetings/1540/Pages/default.aspx

To arrange a private meeting with the Zyvex team to discuss marine applications, please contact us at info@zyvextech.com 

[REPRINT] Prepregs boost marine quality

Source: Reinforced Plastics - George Marsh

http://www.reinforcedplastics.com/view/16246/prepregs-boost-marine-quality/

Using high performance fibres that are already impregnated with resin is, say the proponents of prepregs, a sure way of building consistent quality into fibre reinforced plastic (FRP) products. Aircraft builders became convinced some time ago, but constructors of marine craft have followed suit as customers for premium yachts and some commercial craft seek top performance with structures that are exceptionally light, stiff and strong.

In the latest high-tech elaboration, Hall's single-piece seamless mast construction method has been combined with carbon nanotube technology developed by the Zyvex Performance Materials. Zyvex’s Arovex material is produced by mixing carbon nanotubes into the resin which is then combined with carbon fibres to create a prepreg. Fortifying the resin with nanotubes enhances the strength of the finished product without the need for extra reinforcing fibres or the expense of higher-modulus carbon. The new J/111 sailboat from J/Boats is an early platform for the Hall/Zyvex carbon nanotube mast technology.

Zyvex and Piranha featured in C4ISR - Piranha as counterpiracy tool

Source: C4ISR Journal December 2010

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Zyvex Technologies Reveals the Piranha Unmanned Surface Vessel

Everett, WA (PRWEB) October 17, 2010 - Zyvex Technologies announces the start of initial sea trials and reveals the first official images of the Piranha Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV). The largest structure ever built with nano-enhanced carbon fiber, the Piranha USV is a 54’ vessel that weighs less than 9,000 lbs. For unmanned operations, the lightweight Piranha USV has dramatic increases in range, payload, and fuel efficiency that make it ideal for long range surveillance, patrol, and anti-piracy operations.

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[REPRINT] Drone Boat to be Built in Bothell

[REPRINT] Sailors take note: That fast-moving, gray and black object crisscrossing Puget Sound near Everett is not an orca, it's a Piranha. As in Piranha USV, a 54-foot-long prototype of an unmanned surface vessel (USV) that began its sea trials this past week. It's made of carbon-fiber composites like the 787 Dreamliner, but with an extra ingredient — nanotube molecules that add strength and stiffness, according to developer Zyvex Technologies of Ohio.

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[REPRINT] What's that strange, camouflage boat on Puget Sound?

[REPRINT] If you look out at Puget Sound from Seattle to Everett, you may get a peek at it -- a strange looking boat with camouflage paint. It is intended to carry out its missions unmanned. It's called the Piranha, a boat developed with private funds trying to get the attention of U.S and Allied navies as well as the Department of Homeland Security.

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