I had the opportunity to speak with Tom Olsen, owner of The Duck Boat Company, yesterday. He is picking-up Dean Clark's storage cover and blind panels in Duxbury, Ma. With these in-hand, they will be making a mold of the Classic 17's storage cover using 3/4" Coremat as the panel reinforcement, rather than the PVC pipe pieces ripped lengthwise and latticed into the covers with CSM layers that the old storage covers employed. So, there will be a mold to not only enable TDB-17' Classic owners to replace lost or damaged storage covers, but the replacements will be lighter and have better torsional rigidity.
The second bit of news is that Tom and Nate will be using Dean Clark's blind panels to make patterns for a full replacement blind for the Classic 17' hulls via their seamstress crew. Panel replacement will be available as well since they will be making a point of copying the buckle placement on the original blind panels as well.
The new blind frames employ a thicker walled pipe on the cross-brace runs on the17' Sea Class boats, which are now available in open water gray scale camo patterns, boat, cover and blind. All hull panels are manufactured using injection molding using vacuum bagging to standardize cloth:resin ratios and maintain quality control.
The second bit of news is that Tom and Nate will be using Dean Clark's blind panels to make patterns for a full replacement blind for the Classic 17' hulls via their seamstress crew. Panel replacement will be available as well since they will be making a point of copying the buckle placement on the original blind panels as well.
The new blind frames employ a thicker walled pipe on the cross-brace runs on the17' Sea Class boats, which are now available in open water gray scale camo patterns, boat, cover and blind. All hull panels are manufactured using injection molding using vacuum bagging to standardize cloth:resin ratios and maintain quality control.