TECHNOLOGY

Johnston Racing believe that the use of Carbon Fibre in varying weaves is the superior material to build very stiff and on-weight racing shells. When cored with Kevlar honeycomb, hull and panel stiffness is World class.

The hulls, decks and canvass of our Elite boats (CH range) are built with a combination of unidirectional, plain weave and twill weave carbon fibre. When combined with thick sheets of honeycomb we can guarantee superior longitudinal and torsional stiffness. To maximise stiffness, the underdeck bulkheads are shaped to support the deck laterally and longitudinally.

All hulls are coupled with aerofoil aluminium wing riggers which are attached using camlock "quick release" technology . Fully adjustable camlock footstretchers can be attached directly to the rigger rather than the deck. This enables the balls of the feet to be attached directly to the blade in two places (through the footstretcher/rigger and conventionally through the body and oars). That way no energy is lost through the boat.

All Johnston Racing boats are capable of handling all weather conditions because of the extra height given by the aerofoil wing rigger.

Using camlock technology, riggers can be attached and removed from the boat in a matter of seconds without the use of tools. Also camlocks are used on footstretchers to simplify and speed up adjustments - forwards, backwards, steeper, flatter, higher and lower. It will not be long before we will have developed a fully adjustable boat that will not require any tools for making changes to footstretchers, riggers, pins and gates/swivels. The "tool-less" boat is not far away.

The hull and canvasses of all our boats are prepared with a marine grade white gel coat, however we can produce boats in any colour, its your choice!

An independent quality control process ensures all boats are of the highest quality and consistently finished from boat to boat before leaving the factory.

If you have any queries regarding any of our boats please do not hesitate to contact Alastair McLachlan on 0417 881 201 or email at enquiries@johnstonracing.com