Before we bid goodbye to HDPE and PET products applied to boating, let's look at at a bit of live-action innovation from Indonesia, whose 1500 islands demand at least a passing acquaintance with the arts of the sea. The commentary fears for the fate of rainforest given its ubiquitous use of timber ~ tho' often with a veneer of fibreglass ~ but I told them not to worry in view of the fact it'll soon be gone anyway, orang-utans or not.
What is interesting from the first grab is how the outriggers are now furnished with the sort of foam kids use to stay afloat in swimming pools. But to cut to the chase the firm involved is best known for equipping fish-farms, where they use the sort of HDPE piping that otherwise carries water or liquified gas to form the pontoons that surround each pen.
Moving on we can see how via an intellectual leap they experimented with pinching the ends of a heated tube to form the pontoons of a catamaran, before testing it in model form and doing the same thing on a larger scale altogether with their own custom-made jigs and moulds. This resulted in a line of successful rescue boats like the one appearing in 'Thames Water' yellow.
A little-known fact is that the man who is second in UK rich-lists (where I was catapulted from to 70,004,765 after a post headed 'blow-job') is industrialist James Dyson... whose first project was a landing-craft made of polypropylene pipes!
N.B. I added a comment to the video by way of hands-across-the-ocean intended to establish a worldwide fellowship of those dedicated to deployment of plastic piping at sea: motto 'Aquam potius foris ponamus' viz. 'We put our water on the outside'.
