Use of eastern cedar end-grain for core

[jfblouin]

I work on a boat building and I think use Eastern cedar (Thuya occidentakis) end-grain for core in my fiberglass hull.

The cedar is 0.3 density instead 0.1-0.17 for the Balsa.
The cedar is almost rot proof.

Does somebody try this?
What do you think about that?

I have access to a lot of low-cost cedar but I need to make the end-grain myself.

Thanks

Jean-Francois Blouin

[B. Hamm]

I'm sure it would work, but have you priced available core materials? Making your own end grain core would be a huge amount of work for not a heck of alot of gain.

Remember the hull is a very small percentage of the cost of a boat, the core is a tiny percentage.

Bill H.