The future of boatbuilding?
Aug 07, 2020
4 minutes
“MY MAIN MOTIVATION WAS TO FIND A REPLACEMENT FOR GLASSFIBRE”
Friedrich Deimann
A couple of years ago when I started out in this business people patted me on the back and said ‘good luck with that,’” Friedrich Deimann reflects: “Now, things have changed; people say ‘why aren’t more people doing this?’ or ‘how can we use these methods on mass produced yachts?’” Deimann is talking about his innovative new approach to boatbuilding, which involves taking the basic premise of fibreglass boatbuilding - using laminates of fibre glued together - and replacing the toxic glass matting and epoxy with sustainable alternatives. Anyone who has been to a boatyard recently and seen the many small boats abandoned, decaying but stubbornly refusing to
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