Another Assignment

I'm working on a story on Joe Welbourn for The Drake. Joe founded Carbon Marine, a company that makes boating accessories out of carbon fiber, a super lightweight, durable material prevalent in the aerospace industry.
Being the good reporter I am, I wondered about the difference between graphite and carbon fiber. It took a lot of research on the internet and a few more conversations with Joe, but here's the deal: both are carbon based, but graphite is carbon after its been heated to a much higher temperature than carbon fiber.
So that tennis racquet you have, it's not graphite. It's carbon fiber. Golf clubs? Carbon fiber. The fly rod. Same deal.
Over time, graphite has become a catch phrase. In fact, overseas they call it carbon fiber, which is technically correct. In the U.S., apparently we've gotten it wrong. So essentially they are the same, but it's just matter of the timing in the heating process when carbon becomes graphite.
 Below is a picture of Joe after he placed in the Salty Fly this winter.

Dave Preston, left, and Joe Welbourn celebrate.