Designing for sailors, ANY IDEAS???

[Guest]

I am a student at bournemouth university. I have been given a project to design a razor as part of a travel set. This travel set is going to be aimed at the sailor market with casual sailors (sailing for 3-4 weeks at a time) in particular.

The questions that i am looking to be answered is what do you look for in a razor (men or women), and what do you think that this razor should include with respect to handle, blade colours, shape, and, style?

Do you have any other ideas?

Thanks a lot for your co-operation

 

[Twister_Ken]

Off beam

Shave? On a voyage? Nah.

Part of the whole machismo thing is to arrive looking like a rock star who has been on a five-day bender.

 

[Jacket]

Re: Off beam

I'll agree with Ken about shaving being for big girls blouses.

But even if we do decide to shave, why do we need a different sort of razor from normal people?

 

[KevL]

Re: Off beam

Perhaps it's a special shaver for removing five days growth in one painless stroke.

KevL

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It may be the early bird that catches the worm but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.

 

[Peppermint]

Quite plainly

It should be made of either kevlar for lightness or oak for the Old Gaffer end of things.

It should be brightly coloured or varnished to a dark patina.

It should be multi-purpose and complicated

It should be branded and ever so expensive.

Perhaps you could suggest that Ellen Mc used one on her recent triumph. This captures the unisex market.

Yes I do have a beard.

 

[tcm]

Re: 5 day bender

exactly! That's what i said when i parked the car down the slipway.

 

[Joe_Cole]

I'm sorry but if your lecturer has given you this project I would suggest that you take it back to him as being bloody stupid. Any designer worth his salt would turn down a brief like this and I would suggest you do too and tell him to give you something realistic/worthwhile. In the list of priorities amongst sailing folk the choice of razor would be very near the bottom, if it featured at all.

I suspect that your lecturer may even be handing out silly projects to see if you recognize them to be set ups. Tell him to think again!

Joe

 

[halcyon]

What has 3-4 weeks to do with the problem ?

The casual sailer sails all season.

Brian

 

[Guest]

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[Joe_Cole]

What's deodorant?

Joe

 

[philmarks]

Re: Quite plainly

and should be blunt so it does not puncture the liferaft

philm

 

[cgull]

It would be a use and chuck after one use if its for a 3 week voyage. I like not shaving for the duration of a long passage

 

[Cornishman]

What's a razor?

 

[Cornishman]

Re: Off beam

It's us what's normal and all the other b*****s that's odd!

 

[tcm]

Re: casual sailor redefined

it;s not 3-4 weeks in one stretch. It's 3-4 weeks in total.

Also, I think the Casual Sailor will probably wear slacks and a turtleneck sweater.

 

[tcm]

ok, so what has his being a student got to do with it? He may well have been set this Chalenge as the first in a series of Ten in his capacity as suitor of some fair maiden, and seeing as my own dad lives down there it's just the sort of batty thing they would do.

I think he should venture far beyond the Counter Of Toiletries, there to ask of the Dispenser of Potions where he might find the Three headed Shaver of Braun, and return with this prize to claim his bride.

 

[corkonian1]

Make a cheap one, Market it as a sailors waterproof razor, put 'as used by Ellen McArthur on her triumphant ...etc on it' ( this will bw your main expense) , sell only in chandlers, then you can charge treble the price , retire at 21.

 

[qsiv]

I would tend to agree - there is a perfectly good choice of wet razors (IAE what needs do sailors have that others dont). Electric are obviously not so good (my old man swore by [and sometimes at] his clockwork shaver, which he was very loyal to -perhasp because of the German shrapnel embedded in the case).

Why not tackle a real project like designing a better shaped wheel?

 

[ecudc]

As a big girl and a big girls blouse, I'd occasionally want to shave my legs and elsewhere to stop me from looking too much like a gorilla.

Probably not electric and it would certainly have to be cordless when in use.

It's not that easy doing a wet shave with normal disposible razors because of space issues in most heads so perhaps a razor that dry shaves easily which you wouldn't have to use in the head.

You also might be at sea so it better be pretty safe because cuts on your legs bleed for ages.

How about making it a bit like a pen knife with loads of really useful like tweezers and nail clippers, I always loose mine. I guess most women would might apreciate something like that when going on holiday, not just sailing ones.

 

[Jacket]

These tools with loads of different functions are awful for people as careless as me. Instead of just loosing my knife or the corkscrew, I end up loosing knife, corkscrew, bottle-opener, pliers, screwdriver etc!

Long live individual tools- at least when I loose the bottle opener I might be able to find a screwdriver, which can if desperate be used to open bottles (as long as you dring with your teeth together to strain out the bits of cork).