{"id":2392,"date":"2022-11-27T12:15:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T12:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marlow-ropes.co.uk\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2022-11-27T12:15:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T12:15:02","slug":"rs-expands-production-news-boating-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marlow-ropes.co.uk\/?p=2392","title":{"rendered":"RS expands production | News | Boating Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>NEWS RS expands production 24\/11\/2022 Save article The RS Marine group of companies is to manufacture the Pico, Bugs, Bahias and Vagos sailing dinghies having formed a collaboration with designer Jo Richards. SHOW FULLSCREEN Ocean Play is a collaboration between RS Marine and Jo Richards The four dinghies will be manufactured by a a new company, Ocean Play, with delivery expected in late January 2023. The move comes after successful litigation against Laser Performance, which enabled Jo, who is the designer of the four boats, to approach RS with a view to producing the boats. As well as manufacturing to Jo\u2019s original design, Ocean Play will offer worldwide customer services for all the boats. The new company will be headed up by Neil Coxon who is the ex-director of Sailing, Oman Sail and also previously ran the SailLaser operation. \u201cI am delighted to be part of Ocean Play,\u201d he said. \u201cThese boats have enabled so many people around the world to discover their love of sailing and their demand is still very much alive. I am looking forward to the future of Ocean Play and working with our appointed dealer network.\u201d The newly formed company will continue to develop the brands\u2019 markets across Europe and look to expand to other territories. The boats will continue to be made at Roto in Slovenia with Hyde Sails and Seld\u00e9n supplying equipment. \u201cHundreds of thousands of young people have learnt to sail in Picos. We\u2019re excited that hundreds of thousands more will as well,\u201d says Jon Partridge, RS Marine Group CEO. \u201cAs these boats were designed by Jo &#8211; also the designer of many RS boats &#8211; they are incredibly simple and create a safe and comfortable environment for learning to sail.\u201d Topics BoatbuildingLaserOcean PlayPicoRS Marine<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boatingbusiness.com\/news\/rs-expands-production\/1478654.article\">RS expands production | News | Boating Business<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS RS expands production 24\/11\/2022 Save article The RS Marine group of companies is to manufacture the Pico, Bugs, Bahias and Vagos sailing dinghies having formed a collaboration with designer Jo Richards. SHOW FULLSCREEN Ocean Play is a collaboration between &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marlow-ropes.co.uk\/?p=2392\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marlow-ropes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marlow-ropes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marlow-ropes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marlow-ropes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marlow-ropes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marlow-ropes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2393,"href":"https:\/\/www.marlow-ropes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions\/2393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marlow-ropes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marlow-ropes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marlow-ropes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}