We asked Dave Winder about how the Winder 1 Solo came to fruition.
We were originally approached by Jim Hunt and Greg O’Brien from Purple Marine in 1999, Asking if we would have a meeting with them to discuss building a Solo using the Don Marine moulds. Having met up with them and seeing the moulds, we decided we would prefer to build our own set of moulds, with an agreement with Purple Marine that we would supply bare hulls to them and they would market our boats. Jim provided three hulls to measure, and with this information we set about making the hull plug. A hull mould was taken from the plug and the first hull was moulded. Then a deck plug was made inside the first hull, a deck mould was taken from the plug along with a case top moulded from its own plug. The first two boats were built were built ready for the Dinghy Show in March 2000 these were sail numbers 4278 and 4279. We built over 550 hulls out of those moulds up to Dec 2015. Having mastered the Resin Infusion System over a number of years we decided to make a modified MK 1 deck mould which would allow us to infuse the deck as well as the hull. And so the MK 1a was born. Now some 650 hull have come out of the MK 1 Hull Mould In 2010 we purchased the Speed Sails Solo mould and after some improvements made to the tooling we started building the first MK 2 Hull in October 2010 with Sail Number 5166. Over the years that have followed, many improvements have been made to the MK 2 moulds, and we have now built over 330 Mk 2 Hulls
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