Print your next Kayak

Three kayaks, of the same design, printed at RISE in three different materials and tested on the water at GKF (Göteborgs Kanot Föreningen). PLA with cellulose, rPE with wood fiber, PP with glass fiber.

A second trip of 10 km between the office at RISE and the Additive Intelligence conference at Lindholmen Gothenburg tested the polypropylene kayak on a longer trip.

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Kutter-Jolle, Albert Anderson This small-boat design by Albert Anderson will be my first full size boat printed using FFF (fused filament fabrication). The design has been modeled from the original drawings into Autodesk Fusion 360. A prototype has been designed and sliced to use minimum support and printed at 8 percent scale to show the… Continue reading 1896

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CAD model drawn from original drawing in the Sjöhistoriska museets arkiv. (Swedish naval history museum archives).