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Talitha |
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Length LOA
Beam
Draft
Year of build
Designed by
Built by | : 80 meters
: 10,40 meters
: 3,91 meters
: 1930
: Cox & Stephens
: F. Krupp Germania Werf AG |
Talitha is a classic motor yacht, designed in the 1920’s by the very famous architects Cox & Stevens and launched in 1930 under the name MY Reveler. During late 2007 and the first 5 months of 2008 Classic Works designed and built two new funnels to replace the ones in place. The funnels were designed to be lighter and also their height to width ratios were improved to give them more elegance in keeping with the style of the yacht. Once the design was completed the first part of the construction process was to build two separate moulds, one for the cylindrical upper sections and the second for the two bases. The former was a half mould and therefore four half sections were built from it. The second was the full diameter mould which required only two full bases to be produced from it. |  |
| |  | The moulds were built from computer generated sections that enabled rapid assembly and these were then clad in flexible plywood material to give the final shapes. Full fairing and the addition of a Formica layer was incorporated at this stage as one of the main specifications of the build was for minimal filler in the finished objects. This was required both to save weight but also because one of the funnels was designed to incorporate radar and television aerials and any filler would greatly reduce the radio-wave transmission abilities of the funnel structures.
Once the four half upper sections were built using vacuum moulding techniques, they were joined together to create the two main sections of each funnel. These were then vacuum moulded to the bases. The forward funnel was fitted out with interior shelving and a mezzanine floor to take all the electrical components and aerials. Both funnels were fitted with access ladders and roofs with drain holes. | Completion was with a two colour scheme of Awlgrip, slightly matted black and beige. Once finished the two funnels were loaded into two purpose built wooden cradles (each one in themselves weighting over 1000 kgs) and then transported by “Convoi Exceptionnel” (the loads being 4,8 metres wide could only travel at night with special escort) to Hamburg in Germany for fitting to the yacht. The link between the funnels and the deck of the yacht was provided by two aluminium deck rings built in La Ciotat. A specialist team from Classic Works drove up to Hamburg to fit the funnels to the yacht at the Blohm and Voss Shipyard and to make final adjustments before the yacht sailed for England. |  |
 |  |  |  | First building stage | After painting at Classic works yard | The funnel in Hamburg | Talitha | More details and pictures on the construction : Details |
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