Topper Summer silliness question
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Topic: Topper Summer silliness question
Posted By: Riv
Subject: Topper Summer silliness question
Date Posted: 23 Jul 17 at 2:09pm
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Summer school holidays; so it's down to the club to resurrect our aging Topper fleet with pump, soap spray and mastic. Having pumped the boat up well it gets really nice and stiff. So here's the question. As most rotomoulds could be pumped up easily because of the construction method would it be possible to halve the amount of material in them design in some internal stiffeners and compensate by pressurising them to a couple of Psi before sailing to dramtically reducing weight and increasing stiffness? (lets ignore the safety issues for a moment) Paddle board manage this really well some are rated at 22psi, Wow! .  |
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Posted By: Sam.Spoons
Date Posted: 23 Jul 17 at 2:25pm
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A small hole in the transom and it becomes an illegal means of propulsion ;) ------------- Spice 346 "Flat Broke" Blaze 671 "supersonic soap dish" |
Posted By: Eisvogel
Date Posted: 24 Jul 17 at 9:42am
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At least you'd notice if you had forgotten to put the bung in... ------------- Enterprise 20361 (Eisvogel), Laser 102727 (Halcyon), Laser 121986 |
Posted By: Sam.Spoons
Date Posted: 24 Jul 17 at 10:18am
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'cos yer boat'd go all floppy ......... ------------- Spice 346 "Flat Broke" Blaze 671 "supersonic soap dish" |