great idea. Hope this takes off & developed more

WOW! This is real innovation! Thank you for having a separate video for this very interesting design! Thanks & Subscribe!

Thank you, great to see how plants can work in sailing boats.

This is extremely interesting, thanks for the interview.

Fascinating. Great interview.

Great interview and very interesting. This company bis smart and has a good looking boat

Great content 👍🏻

Why would it not get one of these `European boat of the year" or so awards? I guess it is given to big boys of floating caravan builders like Beneteau, Jeanneau, Amel or so for introducing a new set of furniture...

Great info, thanks.

Great innovations.

Very light!

Great to see this. It seems to be taking off. IDB marine makes some flax models too.

Nice video, nice review, and very nice of you to accommodate for the hesitating English language of the German engineer. Your politeness was visible throughout the video. PS. Interesting boat!

Liking your videos - subscribed!

What love it beautiful boat

Can anyone get a verification for this price of flax only being 30% more than glass??!?!?! Last time i checked flax reinforcement was 8 times the price of glass???

@Jpifr

7 ай бұрын

It's 30% per part, in my shop usually materials only account for 10 to 30% of the overall cost. Also price go much more down with flax in quantity than glass.

Genius! What is it's weight in comparison to carbon? Unfortunately, I'm not in the market for a new boat, but Ill take a bike frame made from this material.

@freider7207

4 жыл бұрын

As far i know its not at all or just a little heavier compared to carbon.

@dieabsolutegluckskuche5174

3 жыл бұрын

The good thing about carbon is that it is very stiff. Only s glass fiber is better in strength per weight and has also a great stiffness.

Very Impressive!!!!!!!

Wow.

Hmmm... maybe I'm wrong, but doesn't fiberglass come from sand?

So why not use say wood to build a green boat?

@freider7207

4 жыл бұрын

Its on greenboats homepage, why they choose to not use wood in the classic way (main point was that wood is too heavy compared to the strength): green-boats.de/about/

hemp fiber would be good and more marketable

@dieabsolutegluckskuche5174

3 жыл бұрын

Hemp would be much more expensive cause of the regulations and the plant itself. Under the microscope glassfiber and flax are very similar. Also you cant really farm the hemp seeds and the fiber together, because they are ready in different times and the hemp seeds will get you much more money. Don't get me wrong, hemp is great, but flax is cheaper, easier to work with and already used, also there are already a lot of machines for flax and they dont have to do so many things in the same time. For some cases other plants are better than hemp.

This is great. Boats make a terrible amount of pollution. Be interested to know about ropes and sails. We see increasing sponsorships with enviro messaging, but I wish the events themselves would adopt a zero waste policy and impose that on the teams.

like the millions of boats built from WOOD before it? lol so innovative!!

Great idea but it became very difficult to listen to. There were also a few questions where he avoided direct answers.

green boat bullshit ,, no petrochemicals ??? are you serious you use sandwich foam ,, thats hydrocarbon chains using plastics ,, not to mention your mast/boom and off those sails you have on the boat what are they laminate yaa I see no petrochemical products used ,,

Bullshit green washing. It's been more tnan 10 years now that flax boats are sailing, i was not able to find the eco impact trudy compared to a normal equivalent boat. A Greenboat would at least avoid LEAD in the keel that increases the global impact several times more than the actual gain of the composite. In terms of structural resistance, best flaxes are way less stiff than glass and resin ratio is higher, so comparing a monolythic with a sandwich makes no sense. Last point, using even a reclycled foam core with natural fiber compormise the end of life boat. The core is no more able to be recycled and when you burn to get calories (that is the logical end of life of natural vegetal materials) you release all petrol CO2 form core in the atmosphereand worse if furnace is not equiped to trap chlore & others poluting parts of plastics. The pseudo technical presentation of the boatbuilder is weak or lies.