Is your boat part of the Zombie apocalypse?

Originally posted by JimC My understanding is that the injection moulding was only practicable because it was also a technology demonstration, and the investment was written off against that. I'm very out of date on this stuff and was never in that part of the plastics industry, but my understanding is that the tooling for injection moulding is way way more expensive than roto moulding (which I don't think really got going until the 80s for sophisticated fabrications)

Tens of thousands and you have to be pretty damn sure of some volume before committing, even the windsurf game had to give up on it eventually, couldn't get the numbers and I'm not sure but isn't the Topper blow moulded which is a stage more sophisticated than roto and it's polypropylene rather than polyethylene which I seem to recall from some dim and distant memory requires more complication?

Edited by iGRF - 10 Apr 16 at 7:30pm

Yes I guess it is, but, what other class has the wash through hull design, sliding seat option, potential for open rig design, it's not as if you're locking folk into anything, like perpetual self balers, daggerboards, like the streaker..

Edited by iGRF - 10 Apr 16 at 7:48pm

No, not come across a 'Meson' have you a link? Is it on the minisail site?

Yep found that, nearly got wood poisoning watching it.

Originally posted by JimC Originally posted by Rupert Should Proctor have redesigned the Minisail for injection moulding too, as a larger version? My understanding is that the injection moulding was only practicable because it was also a technology demonstration, and the investment was written off against that. I'm very out of date on this stuff and was never in that part of the plastics industry, but my understanding is that the tooling for injection moulding is way way more expensive than roto moulding (which I don't think really got going until the 80s for sophisticated fabrications)