Open Bic

Yes, I've got one for sale..

Originally posted by Richard20Sailing This thread has gone very off topic from the Bic Open.  However on the future materials for massed produced boats I was very interested in the computer aided precision cut foam sandwich board on the cheerub at the last dingy show. With the right design a home made hull for a new mid range class using this kit could provide a break through. In different times the mirror was successful because it was cutting edge with the design for the available skills and materials.  I think the bic open is good and the fevera is ok but these rota-moulded products are physically small and quite small boats. I am looking forward to the breakthrough in technology for a cheaply produced hull not to feel horrible.

Just need to adjust the CAD cutting file for this process and the Farr 3.7 could provide a good test bed for that theory. It certainly fits the - not to fast and achievable by all, criteria. (thought I'd hijack the thread as it's gone so far of topic all ready!)

This thread has gone very off topic from the Bic Open.  However on the future materials for massed produced boats I was very interested in the computer aided precision cut foam sandwich board on the cheerub at the last dingy show. With the right design a home made hull for a new mid range class using this kit could provide a break through. In different times the mirror was successful because it was cutting edge with the design for the available skills and materials.

Originally posted by Rupert Unlike the move from ply to GRP, this will involve having to have new designs.

How many large competitive classes can we think of where GRP actually did takeover from ply? Wasn't it mostly new classes anyway? Until foam sandwich ply was the top end choice in Solos and Enterprises and so on...

I suppose if I were to look at a list of classes I'd come up with a few, but without doing that check the only ones I can think of where glass took over were moulded like the 505.

At our club we are  mainly old with a few young chappies. Even if a new whizzy design did come out no one would buy it. Us oldies are to old and the youngies could not afford it. Hence we have 11 Supernovas and 4 Lightnings.