Regent's Paladin was christened in early March
From the floor Dry fitting the lower assembly of Regent Craft's prototype wing
do on theirs,’ he continues, ‘It's all the little details; there's just so much little stuff to get correct. The better you can execute on the front end, the less time you need to get the systems working correctly on the water and the faster you can develop the performance side.’ Now, after a final tweak to the new
ballast tank piping on that computer screen, Day and Henderson are both nodding again; let’s try that. After other members of Moore Bros’ design team add any input, the pieces will be built in their 21,000-square-foot workshop and finally – with Day’s ongoing support and detailed problem-solving – installed by Bella Mente’s crew. Not long after that, it will likely be adopted by many of the trend-setting boat’s competitors. After years of working on the Regent
prototype, Day is enjoying this return to sailing projects. ‘Hopefully there will be other things coming for Regent down the road,’ he predicts, ‘but for now it’s nice to refocus on the marine industry.’
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Oliver and Sam Moore reflect on the growth of Moore Brothers Company Moore Brothers’ most recent endeavour, the hull and wing of a full-scale prototype for Rhode Island based seaglider developer Regent Craft, was delivered last winter and will go on to see the company’s first crewed flight testing in 2025. Our largest project to date both in scale (a 55ft hull and 60ft wingspan) and complexity, the past three years have demanded a transformative level of growth… from the ground up. Since our earliest conversations in
❑ Stanchion installed aboard Bella Mente A new design of custom stanchions with integrated water balast vents
2021 surrounding their quarter-scale, to building the hull and wing of their first full-scale vessel, supplying Regent with production engineering support and composite fabrication of their prototypes has been a fruitful, invigorating, and particularly rewarding endeavour. Regent is constantly thinking about how to build composite seagliders at scale, so it was keen to explore how to fabricate the components fast enough. We have never backed away from a challenge and we’re proud that our core team has remained invested since the day we bit off such a large project, and risen to the challenge. We learned valuable lessons while managing a project of that size; accepting iterations of designs, engineering and executing a structure with documented quality control, empowering our team with good information and resources, and building relationships with vital partners in various aspects of the job; Symmetrix, Lyman-Morse, Janicki, Ocean State Composites and Composite Approach among them. Finally, the decision to add a 30ft x 10ft x 4ft five-axis CNC machine to our collection of equipment brought our tooling and post processing up to the highest possible standard. Recently we congratulated Regent
on the ground-breaking of their 255,000sq ft manufacturing facility in North Kingstown, RI. It’s a critical step in their path to producing seagliders and transforming transportation for coastal communities around the globe. Today Moore Brothers has grown into
Bella Mente’s new custom stanchions fabricated with precision in carbon fibre
a company with the capacity to execute all phases of R&D projects, requiring fabrication of premier composite structures, from engineering to tooling and through to final part fit out. Whether it is a project for the marine, industrial or aerospace world, we are ready to take on the job and we can do it all in house.
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