Re: copying other designers / manufacturers boats.

Mike Sullivan wrote:
"Carl" <carl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:f8qnqe$t39$1$8302bc10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

mike1@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


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It is crazy that on the one hand Levi, the jeans manufacturer, or Rolex, can have Customs impound & destroy copies of their products simply to protect their own over-priced marketing scam, yet rowing manufacture A is encouraged to rip off manufacturer B's product & even to advertise that fact?


This goes back deep into the history and culture of rowing.

I am unaware why that might be thought to be any more the case in rowing than elsewhere.

I wonder if this comes from the day when boats were of wood
and to set up manufacture of a hull design was not as simple
as making a mold of an existing boat.

That tends to make all makes of boats different, since each maker had their own preferences & worked also to incorporate the suggestions of their clients.

It's an interesting topic. Didn't the early boat builders on the
Thames borrow heavily from each others' designs in
construction of the early racing shells?

No, I don't think so. And in accessories the trend for development is marked by a string of patent applications, particularly by the US inventor, Davis, who introduced & marketed a string of radical ideas which left their mark on the sport.

Put it another way: time was when every tailor copied (or not) the products of the leaders of their trade. But now some worthless, mass-produced gew-gaw such as a bangle or a T-shirt becomes both protected against replication by the full force of criminal law if it carries a so-called "Designer" label. And I would note that, in other fields of boatbuilding, designers zealously protect their intellectual property without interference from those who govern the sport.

Carl
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