Congratulations to Niklas Zennström and the Rán racing team for winning a highly contested battle in the 2024 Caribbean 600 IRC Zero class. Niklas Zennström was delighted with the class win, tinged with a little frustration at just missing out to Leopard 3 for an overall win...

Tucked away in the new hull oven at Fibre Mechanics, a Bill Tripp designed 88ft shoal draft cruising yacht is fast taking shape.   The challenge set by the Client was to design and build a high performance cruising yacht with a maximum draft of 2m. The phrase ‘Shoal Draft Performance...

Fibre Mechanics have opened a new factory facility in Hythe UK, with direct waterfront access and a new hull oven that can accommodate yachts of up to 50m in length.   Fibre Mechanics' planned growth is set out in three phases. Phase 1 was to take over the original Green Marine factory...

FIBRE Mechanics and Carkeek Design announce a new 52ft IRC racing yacht for 2021. Full production tooling for the new boat, to be known as the CF-520 is now under construction at FIBRE Mechanics in Lymington UK; with boat one due for launch in March 2021. FIBRE Mechanics plan to build a short...

In July FIBRE Mechanics announce the delivery of a fire rated superstructure to WightShipyard in Cowes IOW. The Superstructure will be installed onto a 20m aluminium hulled SES catamaran wind farm service vessel, due to enter service in the North Sea by the end of the year...  ...

FIBRE Mechanics have delivered the 5th set of structural components for the Gunboat 68  -  shipping over 150 components to Gunboat Europe in La Grande Motte.  The delivery of components is timed to co-incide with the completion of the hull, so that the assembly teams can...

Delivery day at FIBRE Mechanics....   As the 100ft central hull of Banque Populaire XI is loaded onto a wind turbine transporter to make it's journey from Lymington UK to Lorient in France.  The new Ultime 100 trimaran was designed by VPLP and is being built by CDK...

Newly installed at FIBRE Mechanics in Lymington UK is a 48m hull oven, for the curing of pre-preg yacht hulls and decks.  The oven was designed by the in-house project team who bring a great deal of experience to the task. Gary Vaughan (Director of Operations) commented   "...

In May 2019 FIBRE Mechanics delivered the 20th Melges IC-37 to the New York Yacht Club in Newport RI.   Having agreed to construct the boats just 12 months ago, the team at FIBRE Mechanics successfully completed a complete set of production tooling and 10 boats in the space of...