Orange peel moulds

[PCUK]

Working on my renovation project today and sanding various parts of faired superstructure and having to take off the moulded-in orange peel at the same timeI was reminded of how bad many boat moulds are. I remember thinking that Sunseeker were among the worst at a boat show many years ago. But even now when owners are showing off their newly polished hulls there is usually a serious amount of orange peel on show. Anyone else had the same thought?:ambivalence:

 

[P4Paul]

Working on my renovation project today and sanding various parts of faired superstructure and having to take off the moulded-in orange peel at the same timeI was reminded of how bad many boat moulds are. I remember thinking that Sunseeker were among the worst at a boat show many years ago. But even now when owners are showing off their newly polished hulls there is usually a serious amount of orange peel on show. Anyone else had the same thought?:ambivalence:

It is more to do with the speed of turn of the tooling than the toolings surface finish.
It drives me mad to see kinks on shut lines, pull marks where bulkheads are bonded in and mat patterns ghosting through the gel because the cure times are being pushed to and beyond their limits.
Gone are the days when mouldings sat in the tooling to fully cure before extraction.

Imo it is driven by impatience of the customer who wants everything asap and the margins in boatbuilding which necesitate quick turnarounds of the tooling as floor space costs big bucks, adds huge costs and delivers no value.

Well, no value right up until the moment the customer stands on the pontoon and sees wavy lines in their £1m toy!

 

[dustywings]

It is more to do with the speed of turn of the tooling than the toolings surface finish.
It drives me mad to see kinks on shut lines, pull marks where bulkheads are bonded in and mat patterns ghosting through the gel because the cure times are being pushed to and beyond their limits.
Gone are the days when mouldings sat in the tooling to fully cure before extraction.

Imo it is driven by impatience of the customer who wants everything asap and the margins in boatbuilding which necesitate quick turnarounds of the tooling as floor space costs big bucks, adds huge costs and delivers no value.

Well, no value right up until the moment the customer stands on the pontoon and sees wavy lines in their £1m toy!

I remember hearing of a buyer paying extra to have his new boat stay in the mould for twice the usual time to ever come this very problem.