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The Ophardt Boat Chassis Family • Outer Wall: Sea grade Aluminum (EN AW-5083), 8 mm thick • Manufacturing: CloneTech mass production on CNC machines and industrial robots • Triple Tech: The innovative aluminum manufacturing process is a combination of welding, bolting and gluing operations, for maximum joint strength and torsional stiffness. Gluing has the additional advantage of limiting crack corrosion

Model OP5909 OP7909 OP9909 OP11909

Length, o.a. 6.15m (20.2 ft.) 8.08m (26.5 ft.) 9.9 m (32.5 ft.) 12m (39.6 ft.)

Beam 1.99m (6.5 ft.) 2.5m (8.2 ft.) 3.16m (10.36 ft.) 3.8m (12.5ft.)

Dry weight 0.65t 1.1t 1.7t 2.4t

Draft/Displacement n/a 0.62m/3.7t 0.73m/6.5t 0.86m/10t

Hermann Ophardt built a global hand-sanitizer empire before turning his attention to boatbuilding several years ago.

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