Southport's 28 Express joins the advantages of computer-aided design and a soft-riding hull form designed for outboard four-stroke power by C. Raymond Hunt Associates with superior new synthetic boat-building materials and cutting edge electrical technology. The result is the most technologically advanced offshore Express model of its kind.
Southport's 28 Express joins the advantages of computer-aided design and a soft-riding hull form designed for outboard four-stroke power by C. Raymond Hunt Associates with superior new synthetic boat-building materials and cutting edge electrical technology. The result is the most technologically advanced offshore Express model of its kind.
Only solid modelling and forward thinking could produce the six-piece unibody construction of the Southport 28 Express.
Before computer modelling made tooling accuracy of one-thousandth of an inch a reality, the six interlocking pieces that form the hull, cabin, bridge and deck of the 28 Express would have been impossible to construct. But using this CAD technology together with advanced materials like vinylester resins, knitted glasses, composite cores and methacrylate bonding produces a monocoque construction where the interior and exterior become structural. As a result, the 28 Express is a solid, foam-filled vessel weighing as much as 650 Kg less than competitive boats. And since the hull form was designed by Hunt specifically for the added weight of four stroke power, the Express is as soft and dry riding as her center console sister ships without the performance-robbing weight disadvantages of conventional boat- building methods.
