Wow – finally got our sample of ‘Hot Hands’. They are a glove liner for all types of gloves – to join our ‘hot range’ of garments – like hot legs, hot tops, hot socks etc. They are now in production – and should be with us in time for the summer – whopps!! We should see them on the shelves by the end of May.
I also signed off a new design of winter glove after lots of testing and development. It will be called our Arctic Glove. It is amazing. More with pictures to follow.
Our experience of sailing RPX gave me the feeling that the boat was pretty unforgiving in a short sea and slightly too nose sticky off wind. She popped up on the plane early but the speed was always limited by the bow as it was hard to get it to lift and move the wetted surface aft. However, she had amazing manoeuvrability and awesome speed in flat water. After some more analysis we have a plan to make the second rapid prototype to move the centre of buoyancy aft (to reduce the pitching in waves) , add a little more rocker (to help her accommodate a wave patten) and re shape the deck sides to more modern lines. The red boat was our first design, the blue one is the first development.
Mass production of a carbon ‘tracked’ mast would be a serious time limiting factor. A well known Carbon Mast Manufacturer would consider an order for 200 masts to be a very large order, so an order for 1000 per year would be beyond their current production facility.
However, they can produce an aluminium tracked mast in the quantities we are looking for – so hence the question has to be asked -
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