Personal watercraft

Recreational Activities Walking and bicycling. Running, swimming and aerobics. Golfing with a cart, personal watercraft, all-terrain vehicles, and snow-mobiling. 

Marine Powerboats, sailboats, canoes, kayaks, personal watercraft... 

Major polymer applications mirrors for personal watercraft, recreational vehicle antennas, pool accessories, exterior cable enclosures, large screen displays, sheet outdoor furnishings, profiles, spas, marine apphcations, skylights, ski bindings... 

As an example glass RP boats in use are visually almost indistinguishable from traditional, but more expensive, wooden craft. Slightly higher tech is the Raptor Sportjet, an advanced personal watercraft (PWC) produced in North America. Although hand laid in glass fiber molds and room temperature cured, the all-glass prototype incorporates 0°/90° woven fabric and stitched triaxial reinforcement as well as chopped strand mat. Hull cavities are filled with two-part polyurethane foam for buoyancy and noise reduction. 

At some point in the future, recreational and personal watercraft may also be powered by fuel cells." ... 

In Figure 17.3, one or more competencies support a core product. These core products are the heart of many products that go to market. The core products feed the end product offerings of various businesses. So Honda s core products, engines and power trains, produce multiple motorized products, including automobiles, all-terrain vehicles, outboard motors, personal watercraft, generators, and engines. The businesses market and sell end products that have their roots as core products based on core competencies. 

Low-density SMC In 2007, Yamaha announced the devdopment of NanoXcd, a low-density sheet molding compound to be used in their WaveRunner line of personal watercraft. Nanoclays enable the reduction of fiberglass and other bulking (clay) components content, thus lowering the SMC specific gravity by about 25% (from about 1.9 to 1.5) without sacrificing mechanical properties [16]. 

A primerless adhesive designed for heat fixture or radio frequency cure assembly, whilst also offering long bondable open times at room temperature. Ideal for high performance composites, including automotive and personal watercraft assembly. 

Methyl terf-butyl ether (MTBE) was once used as a gasoline octane booster, but was phased out after it appeared as a low-level water pollutant in the United States. Levels of this chemical in recreational lakes and reservoirs were attributed largely to emissions of unburned fuel from recreational motorboats and personal watercraft having two-cycle engines that discharge their exhausts directly to the water. 

The Marine market segment includes all composite materials used for pleasure boats, personal watercraft, naval boats and ships, racing craft, as well as for commercial ships and component parts, equipment, motor covers, moorings, marina docks and floats. 

With the advent of NanoXcel technology for the Yamaha FX HO WaveRunner personal watercraft [53], montmorillonite as a reinforcing dispersed phase in unsaturated polyesters has become a reality. The new technology is based on the utilization of organomontmorillonite Cloisite 30B to form a polymer nanocomposite with a hybrid unsaturated polyester-urethane polymer supplied by Reichhold Inc. This is a marine-grade unsaturated polyester. 

News Report Nanotechnology offers benefits for personal watercraft. Reinforced Plastics, 523 (2008), 8. 

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