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2. Plastiki - Wikipedia

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   The Plastiki is a 60-foot (18 m) catamaran made out of 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles and other recycled PET plastic and waste products. [2] Michael Pawlyn [3] of Exploration Architecture worked on the concept design with David de Rothschild and helped to shape some of the key ideas.

3. RowPerfect - Wikipedia

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   The result is that the flywheel moves towards the rower on the recovery, mimicking the on-water experience of the boat moving under the rower more accurately. The Rowperfect is also unusual in offering a limited tilt seat, which compels the rower to control their weight distribution during the power stroke and recovery.

4. Boat building - Wikipedia

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   A subdivision of the sheet plywood boat building method is known as the stitch-and-glue method, [8] where pre-shaped panels of plywood are drawn together then edge glued and reinforced with fibreglass without the use of a frame. [9] Metal or plastic ties, nylon fishing line or copper wires pull curved flat panels into three-dimensional curved ...

5. Fibre-reinforced plastic - Wikipedia

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   The Ford prototype of 1941 could have been the first plastic car, but there is some uncertainty around the materials used as it was destroyed shortly afterwards. [9] [10] The first fibre-reinforced plastic plane was either the Fairchild F-46, first flown on 12 May 1937, or the Californian built Bennett Plastic Plane. [11]

6. Pocock Racing Shells - Wikipedia

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   In 1961 he built the first ever fiberglass rowing boat—a wherry. By 1979 Stan was running the shop and experimenting with ideas that were ahead of their time. He was first in many areas, including the development of a successful wood and glass laminated composite oar, molded seat tops and adjustable oarlock height spacers.

7. Clansman 30 - Wikipedia

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   The mast is deck-stepped on an aluminium channel that sits above the two main internal bulkheads - a solution that allows easy passage below decks to the forecabin, while ensuring a solid base for the mast. Many of the boats were delivered with an outboard engine that was mounted in a cutout in the rear cockpit bench seat and could be removed ...