* I need to secure a location for light industrial manufacturing... fiberglass resin can be smelt for a quarter mile around. I am going to go visit the Aurora Airport and see what a hangar costs in this day and age. Plus Aurora, Oregon has a nice ring to it when people start to imagine where their boat was given birth.
* I need to figure out the waterproof hatch system for each side compartment in the boat. I was considering ways of incorporating an OEM solution from the Pelican Case Co. But I also found Arrowhead Inc and they have a cool hinge that may work in conjunction with their fiberglass door. I would want to make the door/hatch a custom size that is a bit bigger and followed the contours of the curved outside edge of the side compartments.
* I found Arrowhead as I was trying to take fiberglass boat manufacturing to the next level beyond "hand-laid" fiberglass layers and into a vaccuum assisted Resin Transfer Molding process. Here is the company that makes RTM molds for Lockheed, Boeing, etc.
By doing an RTM mold I wouldn't feel the need to hire someone right out of the gates to do the glass work. I could do it myself and probably make a boat every other day. It would be cool if the demand was that high.
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