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Does anyone know what their current status is? Their FAQs haven't been updated in over a year: >How many boats have you delivered? >As of March 2019, we have
by JacobDotVI 6y ago
Does anyone know what their current status is? Their FAQs haven't been updated in over a year:
>How many boats have you delivered?
>As of March 2019, we have delivered 10 boats to customers in Sweden, Finland, Austria, the US and the British Virgin Islands.
>When can you deliver?
>We still have a few production slots available for deliveries for the summer of 2020. Scroll down and go to the order page to reserve one.
- zackkatz 6y agoThe video reports they have delivered 12. Not exactly producing at scale!
- TheTruth321 6y agoThis is the boating industry ... not google ads.
- gpapilion 6y agoThere are very few boats that’s hit high scale production numbers. They are often custom, and the market is much smaller for higher priced boats. 12 is lower than I would have thought, sub 100 a year isn’t surprising.
- cptaj 6y agoYeah, most boat manufacturers in the world don't hit mass production numbers. Fiberglass is relatively easy to work with requiring very little tooling investment. You can also easily "clone" other boats by taking a mold of the hull. This means there are A LOT of mom and pop shops making amazing boats all over the world. 12 boats for these guys seems pretty good to me. Its very unproven technology and boaters don't like that. The sea is a rough environment and most wil prefer tried and true solutions with long supply chains for parts and service.
- sandworm101 6y ago>> You can also easily "clone" other boats by taking a mold of the hull. Be careful about this. In a truly strange exception, american boat hulls are protected by US copyright law... the dreaded DMCA. "Title V of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Vessel Hull Design Protection Act, provides sui generis protection for an “original design of a useful article” (where “useful article” is limited to boat hulls)." https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/vessel_hull_design_protection_act https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/vessel_hull_design_protectio...
- MikaelCandela 6y agoThe boat is actually not fiberglass, it’s all carbon fiber. That’s why it’s so light - the hull is just 230 kg. A similar glass fiber boat would be 900 kg.
- mstade 6y agoAlive and well I hope – my friend is getting his boat delivered tomorrow!
- JacobDotVI 6y ago@mstade - any updates? How's your friend's boat??
- MikaelCandela 6y agoMikael Candela at Candela here. Corona slowed us down a bit but we have delivered 16 boats so far to the US and Europe.