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Some of the technically details in the Supernova is rather unorthodox, but they seem natural and work fine. What kind of people get such ideas?
To find out, I called the constructor; Ib Pors Nielsen one friday, and he asked me to visit him the next day. When I was about to leave, my girlfriend asked me how long it would
take. I had 9 questions for him, and I had a taperecorder wth me, with 2 hours of tape, so my answer was; that it wouldnt take much more than the 2 hours.
But I was wrong, I did forget the questions in the car, and the interview took more than 4 hours. - I got the whole story; form the first futile experiment with a boat that did
look like a surfboard in the late 40´ties, a 1/4 ton boat which 2 men could carry (before the keel was attached), until today where he works on 3 exciting projects.
Ib Pors Nielsen was born 1933. He made the Nova, a small version of the Supernova and the Supernova around 1973, but at that time he had build several boats - as I mentioned; he
started building boats in the late 1940'ties so he have over 50 years boat building experience.
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The Nova was a trimaran without a foresail. The first mass production did contain both Novas and Supernovas, but they had technical problems, the trampoline of the Supernova, for
example, was to weak. Ib Pors Nielsen then developed the "key plate" system for the next revision of the Supernova which is called Supernova MK2. The production was then sold to a
firm called Spangsberg & Son A/S, who made around 750 Supernovas. In 1987 Spangsberg sold the forms and spare parts stock to Danish Yacht Import A/S, I have written to them, but
they havent answered my letter, so here the story about the Supernova stops.
Ib Pors Nielsen is a versatile person, he is a boat constructor and an inventor. He develops the ideas into products - then he find somebody who is interested in producing the
products, and then he help them create a viable production. Through his life he had been working with a lot of different people, and a couple of them havent been fair, so that he
was the one who were left with debth and a lack of belief in his fellow man.
I know the story: My dad was also a businessman with integrity and moral standards, and he had to close his business because some of his customers did find a dodgy excuse not to
pay.
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