To all you casual sailors out there! 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, 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




<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by savloy84 on 02/12/2002 17:06 (server time).</FONT></P>

 

[hylas]

Humm most sailors doesn't shave themselves.. and a razor is then useless.. :0)
Good luck...

 

[tcm]

3 or 4 weeks at a time isn't very casual. It's well on the way to professional, rtw yottie, weirdo, and then lost in high seas, imho.

anyway, 3-4 week yottie might not shave. But that's no good.

So, look up "sailing knife" with the search criteria set to "and" for some general stuff. The shank should be square so it doesn't spin and cut you. Better be unisex as some of the best sailors are currently women, esp those doing three weeks plus. Black and silver is fairly androgenous, small sized.

 

[Bergman]

Should include something to cut rope and open shackles.

 

[Jacket]

And a bottle opener! Much more important than shaving.

 

[LadyInBed]

Re: what do you look for in a razor . . .

. . . Can it be recharged from 12 Volts?

 

[tilpah]

it should have something for taking stones out of horses hooves and a bottle opener, a cork handle so it floats if dropped overboard, a mirror clipped to it that double as a signaling device, the handle should be adjustable compared to the head so it can be adjusted to the angle of heel ot the boat.....

 

[l'escargot]

a large handle with a hip flask inside?

 

[muchy_]

Some emergency equipment would be nice, flares, handheld VHF, firstaid kit, liferaft etc............well, OK maybe the liferaft is being a bit silly. Plus, after shaving you would dip it in the basin and poof......no, just stick to the basics.

 

[clyst]

Ever thought you've wasted your time mate????????????

 

[rich]

Shave???????wots that when sailing,good luck.

rich )

 

[Chris_Stannard]

Long life on throw away batteries so i can get a shave without hot water and wipe down with a baby wipe.

Chris Stannard

 

[hlb]

I think the best bit of research you could do. Is to give your findings here and over on MBY to the idiot who gave you the project. Study there reaction./forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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[Trevethan]

I think you might want to re-think your product or the market - most sailors, particularly yachties are scruffy buggers and scarcely shave for work, let alone when on the boat - I know don't!

Try coming up with something useful like windows that don't leak, sheets that don't go grey soggy and get tangled or a diesel heater that doesn't need a a degree in electro engineering to wire up!

 

[Kathryn]

Your are too late!!! It has already been done Braun plus batteries. It does not use valuable water for putting in the whisky.

 

[billskip]

fitted with an all in beautiful blond to make it automatic and hands free

Bill
www.aegeansailing.co.uk
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[Forbsie]

Homebase already do one!

Also useful for other tasks on boats.

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[plopp]

don`t bother the last one I had onboard got knicked in a shower block(in a south coast marina?) while I was doing other thing so I gave up shaving whilst sailing. That reminds me must take mirror out of heads
Ps has your lecturer got a beard?

 

[Bodach na mara]

Re: what do you look for in a razor . . .

What's a razor?

Ken Johnson

 

[andy_wilson]

Forget handle, blade colours, shape, and, style

Just make sure it corrodes in a salt laden environment (especially the electronics), won't start just when you need it, jams half way up your chin, tangles at the critical moment......

Oh yes, and costs 5 times the price of the non-marine eqivalent.