Building a hull mold, has anyone done this???

Well this project is kind of going backwards, I bought the boat five years ago with the intentions of useing it and not a full restoration. A year later I painted it. The year after that I found a soft spot in the floor and then the complete resto began. Stringers, floor, custom interior, thinking of replacing the mercruiser 350 with a 383 stroker.
Send me a link to any pics you may have of your project. Its hard to find poeple that are working on similar projects. Most other sites I have found cater more towards the old wood boats, an small glass runabouts.

 

It does not matter if you consider it morally right or wrong, or if you have a good lawyer and think you can get away with it.

The point is: When the boat was designed, the designer spent time and effort to get the best boat he could, and through his endevors created a design.

Do you think it should be correct that you can just take the design and make several copies? Where is the payback for the designer. - Cauldron in Malta is another successful boast builder who 'splashed' the work of an english designer. Because labour costs are cheap in Malta, he outpriced the English guy, and the business closed down. These are the Europe famouse 'Phantom Design' boats.

Looking at the fine print: If you buy a boat that is trashed, and make a plug, build the replica and then destroy the original, I dont think that would be illegal or morrally wrong. When you make copies and allow these copies to be functioning at the same time, you are doing the designer/builder/owner of the design out of a sale.

If you photocopy a book for reading on a train, and at the same time the book is at home on the shelf, this is fine. You have bought the right to read the book. But when you lend/sell/give the book to another person, and you continue to read the photocopy then that is when the criminal act occurs. ( it may not be criminal by legal definition and only 'actionable' in a civil court, but the act creates a 'wrong' which can be addressed by a court.

 

This shows some of the work!

The engines are merc re-man, and the drives are new, they were half pice compared to a local dist.

http://formulaboatsforum.com/forumtest/index.php?topic=215.0

 

Big splash/little splash

So where does splashing start & end, I reckon its pretty uncool to wholesale Steal a designers shape & the massive investment of material & effort made by the plug/mold builder in creating a fabulous fair finish, but what about using sheet glass or laminex or melamine sheet? Is the molding of flat panel products off these surfaces stealing the "shining" efforts of those companys that manufacture flat products such as these. Molding off formply(yuck) should be ok, 'cos it's sold for that purpose. If I give the flat surface I've molded a quick wetndry sand & buff up, is that recreating the surface to be mine? Is the application of wax/ PVA recreating that surface to be mine?Using bits of plastic kitchenware as step molds or whatever is definatly stealing the toolmaking of the plastic company that made it. But what do you reckon, can I sleep easy or should I be consumed by feelings of guilt for my surface splashing sins? Jeff.

 

Kitchen utensils! That's very inovative!