Eric Twiname - Int Canoe

   Good to hear that they are still around. Yes I worked at SP -I was hired as a chemist-so I first had to develop the resins for it then laminate the boards in the workshop. It did teach me a lot, about composites!

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Oatsandbeans Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Far too distracted from work Joined: 19 Sep 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 382	Post Options Post Reply Quote Oatsandbeans Report Post Quote Reply Topic: Eric Twiname - Int Canoe Posted: 10 Feb 21 at 2:26pm
	Good to hear that they are still around. Yes I worked at SP -I was hired as a chemist-so I first had to develop the resins for it then laminate the boards in the workshop. It did teach me a lot, about composites!

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	You lot were way ahead of the game I recall, we were buggering about with Polyester up at Parkers, you were epoxies and aluminium honeycomb and stuff like the forunner to nomex, I'd been messing about with Dupont resins that were failing to do the job with their kevlar a few years earlier, they were great times, lots of groundbreaking stuff.
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	Going back to the Eric Twiname photo reminds me when he had first bought that IC, he came to sail at Lee on Solent SC in 1976/77, because we had another IC sailor, Chris Doughty, who built his own boats and in a breeze he was one of the fastest in the UK, and Eric wanted to practise with him. It was a light wind and at the start Eric ran out of room, and ran into the stern of a brand new Cherub punching a hole in the transom. To say sorry to the Cherub owner, Eric presented him with a signed copy of his “ The rules book”!
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Oatsandbeans Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Far too distracted from work Joined: 19 Sep 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 382	Post Options Post Reply Quote Oatsandbeans Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 13 Feb 21 at 7:29am
	Yes that was the beginning of the marine composites business. Sad to see the likes of Parkers gone. They were the best at making 505s at the time in polyester.They never really took on board the new technology. SP (now called Gurit),on the other hand has grown into a massive worldwide composite materials business with thousands of employees and plants around the world. A far cry from the old school in Cowes with a couple of us out the back laminating up some windsurfers.