Mikael Candela at Candela here. Corona slowed us down a bit but we have delivered 16 boats so far to the US and Europe.

The video reports they have delivered 12. Not exactly producing at scale!

There are very few boats that’s hit high scale production numbers. They are often custom, and the market is much smaller for higher priced boats. 12 is lower than I would have thought, sub 100 a year isn’t surprising.

Yeah, most boat manufacturers in the world don't hit mass production numbers.

Fiberglass is relatively easy to work with requiring very little tooling investment. You can also easily "clone" other boats by taking a mold of the hull.

This means there are A LOT of mom and pop shops making amazing boats all over the world.

12 boats for these guys seems pretty good to me. Its very unproven technology and boaters don't like that. The sea is a rough environment and most wil prefer tried and true solutions with long supply chains for parts and service.

The boat is actually not fiberglass, it’s all carbon fiber. That’s why it’s so light - the hull is just 230 kg. A similar glass fiber boat would be 900 kg.

how do you intend to fix and cracks and similar things coming up over the sustainable lifetime of such a recreational article (probably spanning several decades)?

Carbon fiber doesn’t crack like fiberglass.

>> You can also easily "clone" other boats by taking a mold of the hull.

Be careful about this. In a truly strange exception, american boat hulls are protected by US copyright law... the dreaded DMCA.

"Title V of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Vessel Hull Design Protection Act, provides sui generis protection for an “original design of a useful article” (where “useful article” is limited to boat hulls)."

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/vessel_hull_design_protectio...

Alive and well I hope – my friend is getting his boat delivered tomorrow!

@mstade - any updates? How's your friend's boat??