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Location: Tennessee | Brad P - 1/16/2014 12:15 PM
The Tracker Tundra showed that there is more that can be done with Aluminum boat construction. The hulls for those boats were made by Boeing using a molding process that was rather unique. I think the reason we do not see this in tin boats (this is a guess) is that there is probably a significant tooling cost required to use the process. Either that or it is proprietary to Boeing and they are not sharing. I'm just speculating on this front.
As to if/when such processes will be used in boats again? I have no idea.
I cant give specific costs and numbers for this but yes tooling costs and development is extremely costly, and only certain facilities can handle the complexities, not to mention they require an immaculate environment to prevent contamination. |
