How many one-hit wonders can you think of ?
No, I'm not speaking of bands or singers but about boat design. To be hones, there are a lot of similarities between the two.
Of course, the advantage of designing boats rather than music is if you design one decent boat (and you're lucky) you can regurgitate the same design over and over and over again in a variety of sizes or cosmetics. The musician on the other hand winds up working in WalMart or driving a bus...
Fact of the matter is, a lot of boat designers only really have one good boat in them and as far as I'm concerned doing the same boat over and over and over again is OK... We all have to work.
That said, the downside of doing the same old same ad nauseum doesn't actually raise the bar where the art of boat design is concerned now, does it?
I suspect there are a lot of capable and talented designers doing the one-hit wonder circuit that could be designing really exciting boats but refrain from it because doing the same old same is safer and have fear issues about failure...
Thing is, without risking failure and more than likely doing some designs that simply don't make the cut or crash and burn is where progress and true art come into the picture.
So, what sort of designer designed your boat?
Listening to the David Laflamme Band
So it goes...
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