Shallow water born!

[Gian Milan]

Hello everyone. I finished my aluminum shallow water boat. It has two engines of 50 hp Fiat, two Castoldi jet. Weighs 550 kg and the keel with three 10° degrees.
7,1 meters x 2,10 meters.

I put it in water after it is made unsinkable. Something about closed-cell polyurethane? There are other materials?
TY
Gian

[hoytedow]

Use polyethylene, not polyurethane.

Show us some picture, please!

Congratulazioni!

[Gian Milan]

Thanks for the reply hoy! Still lacks double bottom and double walls to inject the foam. For this reason I took photos to post. polyethylene such as polyurethane can be injected? Do you have the brand name of some product?

[Gian Milan]

HI!!
Someone can remind me a suitable material to protect the keel of a shallow water boat from the rocks?
To make a boat unsinkable Hoy advised me, correctly, the polyethylene. With gasoline and with time what should I expect from polyethiylene?
I need some producers adress who sells it as a foam injection...
TY all

[hoytedow]

Polyethylene does not react with gasoline. Gas tanks are made from polyethylene.

[hoytedow]

Italian suppliers: http://www.alibaba.com/countrysearch...yethylene.html

Here is a better source site: http://rubber-plastics.europages.co....d-plastic.html

[Gian Milan]

TY hoy.

The boat has a keel in 3 parts, V 10°...a flat trimaran 2,10*7,1 meters.
Jet are Castoldi 03.
Boat can have 2 or 1 jet.
Is something never seen....I hope in a miracle!;-)

[Gian Milan]

I know I sound hopeless. In Italy no one sells polyethylene bicomponent or spray. If you give me some U.S. supplier, I buy them from you and then import them. Thanks HOY, thanks to all.

[hoytedow]

Maybe Daiquiri knows a local source.

[hoytedow]

http://www.sealedairspecialtymateria...s-leisure.aspx

[Gian Milan]

This afternoon (here is 23:25) I called the Italian branch:

http://www.sealedairspecialtymateria...tUs_Local.aspx

These said that the spray does not exist, and PE is just in panels!!

Tomorrow I call and I check if they have also regular employees or just idiots.

In your experience, Hoy, products exist in spray or bi-component?

[hoytedow]

I've never seen a spray of this plastic. It is usually cut to fit and inserted.

[hoytedow]

Only the greatest of experts can make polyethylene foam. http://faculty.washington.edu/finlay...p_A/page8.html

[Gian Milan]

Becouse of shape of the boat, will be almost impossible to model PE plates.

I think I will use plastic bottles and balls.
You were very kind.
Once finished, I put pictures and a movie.
Thanks
Gian

PS

Our press tell us that all american people are very happy for Amanda and italian courts are very appreciated.

Is it true, Hoy?

[Ike]

Our press tell us that all american people are very happy for Amanda and italian courts are very appreciated.

Not so. I have seen articles on the internet that are mostly favorable to Amanda Knox, but a few are not. I am a believer that she is innocent but I have spoken to some here in Seattle that believe she did it, so I would have to say not all Americans are happy with her release.

On another subject. I am creating a page for my web site listing boatbuilding web sites not in English, outside the US and Canada. I already have a few for French and Spanish. Can you suggest some for Italian?

The page is at http://newboatbuilders.com/pages/links-nonenglish.html