Bobby Johnston - Slingshot Product Designer (ONELOCK)

What we talk about

• Wing tip shapes, how sharp is too sharp, and sanding a damaged tip back at home
• Where ONELOCK started, with a dislike of screws and a pile of clunky prototypes
• Why the aluminium ONELOCK mast is so light and stiff, and how it is priced
• Patents, and keeping a secret foil off camera around Hood River
• High aspect wings, span limits and how to explain sizes to customers
• A pitch for independent foil testing, maybe with a catamaran and force sensors
• Trench boards, foil drive, parawings and where the industry goes as it grows

About this episode

A super fun chat with Slingshot Product Designer, Bobby Johnston, who has been a very busy man over the past 3 years developing Slingshot's new ONELOCK mast & fuselage system in combination with the slingshot foil range among other things.

This is a fantastic chat that covered a lot of bases. From techy tech, design philosophy, business operations, new testing/industry benchmarking methodologies and much more.

Bobby is as friendly as he is modest (very) and we hope we can add him to the list of designer friends of GFP to throw your questions at in the future. We hope you all enjoy this one.

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