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The statement points to a failure of the over lamination of joints
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The official statement says: The internal structure in the engine room
space above the keel on the first of the Oyster 825s (moulded in
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and webs down in to the stub keel structure shown in blue in the
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This matrix provides structural strength, and is connected to webs

under the matrix with secondary laminations shown simplistically
as vertical lines in the second drawing. The matrix was moulded
separately from the main hull and installed in two halves, port side
and starboard side, joined in the middle directly above the webs in
the stub keel, and which then created an inverted T-joint shown in
yellow. The lead bulb keel bolts to the base of the stub keel as shown.

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Keel structure Oyster 825 Polina Star

All of the parts of the matrix and the webs within the stub keel were
designed to be laminated robustly into the inside of the hull moulding.
This manufacturing process of moulding structure off the hull and
then laminating or glueing into the hull is a common process across
the industry from volume manufacturers to specialised one-off
custom or high-tech superyachts but it requires careful work during
the build up of the laminations. It is a process used mainly to speed
up the moulding operations. The assembly of the structure above the
keel area on the Oyster 825 thus relied on laminating 6 main
component parts the port and starboard halves of the matrix and
the 4 webs down into the stub keel.
Our investigations of Oyster 825-01 and 03 which between them
had sailed 20,000 miles, found small cracks at the outer ends of the
horizontal joint between the matrix and the webs (marked A on the
drawing). This suggested that the secondary over-lamination of these
joints was unsound and we investigated invasively by cutting samples
of the critical areas. We found extensive areas of poor laminating in
the secondary structure supporting these T-joints.

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To address this, we removed all of the matrix and web structure

above the stub keel of Oyster 825-01, 03 and 04, re-building this key
area in carbon fibre and epoxy resin and, importantly, making these
parts in single pieces without the T-joint. For all subsequent Oyster
825s the inner structure of the matrix and webs is constructed as a
homogeneous part of moulding the hull itself i.e. the process of
moulding some parts off the boat and then laminating these into the
hull has been stopped and will not be done again. All Oyster 825s are
now being built in the same well proven ways as the rest of the 800+
Oysters built over the past 40 years and all other Oysters currently in
build.
Polina Star III, Oyster 825-02, was constructed in the same manner
as Oyster 825s 01, 03 and 04 and it appears from inspection of the

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described above failed, with the result that the keel loads were

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transferred away from the matrix structure and onto the hull skin,

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leading to catastrophic failure. We have expressed our sincere regret

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