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Chew my RS
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Topic: New Razor Dinghy Posted: 01 Apr 06 at 10:46am |
Breaking news... The Kojing Plastics Corporation will launch the new Razor dinghy at this year's Hong Kong International Auto, Boat and Leisure Show http://www.tdctrade.com/tdcnews/0507/05072901.htm, which starts next week. The combination of the upcoming Beijing Olympics and rapidly increasing wealth in the region has seen sailing expode in popularity in China over the last five years. KPC's Marketing Director, Lola Oprif said "There is huge excitement about the Olympic games and leisure time is increasingly priority in the lives of many. The number of sailing clubs in China has doubled every two years since 2000 and there are almost 500 million middle-class people in China and India, so the potential home market is massive. But we expect the Razor to be a global best-seller. The Razor is an affordable one-person dinghy based on the Olympic single-hander. Sparkling performance combined with amazing value fo money is sure to make the Razor popular. We expect to manufacture 10,000 units a year, so in excess of 20,000 Razors should be sailing worldwide by the time of the Beijing Olympics". |
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Guest
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 01 Apr 06 at 10:58am |
Good effort ....
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JimC
Really should get out more Joined: 17 May 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 6649 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 01 Apr 06 at 10:58am |
That Oprif family gets about: I'm sure I've seen that name on a bunch of press releases today...
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MainlySwimming
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 Apr 06 at 11:17am |
Is this being done in conjunction with Laser (eg have they bought some rights ot the design) or a completely separate initiative? If it's separate are there not copyright / IP issues with building / marketing a boat that is so closely based on another? Or is this the price you pay for building your boats in the UK....(see Boats from Brazil thread) |
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bovlike
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 Apr 06 at 11:30am |
Mainly Swimming look at the date it was posted to find your answer..... |
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Ian (Bov) Turnbull
18ft Skiff Ronstan UK Chandlery, tapered ropes and specialist solutions for sailors who demand the best - BovBoats.co.uk |
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Isis
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 Apr 06 at 11:31am |
...hook line and sinker.
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MainlySwimming
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 Apr 06 at 11:34am |
I'll get me coat. Nice one Chew...
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Chew my RS
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 Apr 06 at 12:31pm |
Sorry, couldn't resist. Raises the point though, how can you copyright a hull? Its only a set of curves - how different would it need to be to 'get away' with it?
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Isis
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 Apr 06 at 12:36pm |
I do a lot of racing kayaking and all the best hull designs get
stollen, built in far away countries and sold for half the price of an
'official' boat... To the best of my knowlage no-one has ever taken
action over it but these boats are iddentical copies.
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Chew my RS
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 Apr 06 at 12:58pm |
In that case, I might just set up Razor factories in China/Mexico/Poland... No development costs, cheap labour, modern purpose built factories.
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