It is certainly unusual looking, i don't exactly love the looks but don't hate it either. I have not heard much about it since the capsize a few...
We have six cats at the marina, three Geminis, a Prout, Jeff's boat and my sons and his girlfriends Simpson. The last two are too wide at 20ft and...
Fallguy, we did not build the boat, my son and his girlfriend had been searching for a year or so for a cat to buy that they could put some sweat...
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A female mold would take a year or two out of the build time, I happen to have such a mold for a 44ft performance cruising cat sitting on a...
I have used Coosa quite a bit over the years and it is a good product used sensibly but I can not think of a situation where I would use it as a...
Before computers what exactly do you think we used to loft out a boat full sized on the lofting floor. Of course its accurate enough. Iv'e lofted...
I have taken the lines off a 40ft wood motorsailer. A customer had bought the boat out of storage and at some point all the ballast in the form...
microballoons are hollow phenolic spheres and q cell is hollow glass spheres, both are used for the same purpose of making a lightweight easy to...
I just stumbled on this thread and have not had time to read it all so can not offer much except that for perspective i used to own a Macgregor 36...
We did a whole interior on an 81 ft maxi 40 years ago with F board aluminum honeycomb but it came to us in sheet form with skins, I'm not sure how...
I have not seen it being expanded but it can not be rocket science, I can figure it out. To be clear, this is not something I would use for major...
Sorry, not dismissing the idea, you are right, i will contact them. I know they used Verticel on the deck and presumably furniture of Rogue Wave...
Thanks for the thought ME, Unfortunatly honeycomb as used in composite panels has a much smaller cell structure than the door industry uses, I...
As far as I know they used verticell or tricell like everyone else who uses paper honeycomb does. Typically phenolic resin coated and this is...
I'm trying to find a source for the above. This is the honeycomb before it is expanded out to make a sheet.
I was working on a customer boat a few weeks ago that had composite fuel tanks. It is a Tiara of around 30ft and is gasoline powered. The tank I...
Years ago all the underground metal fuel tanks at gas stations were dug up and replaced with composite tanks. My understanding is that they are...
Very cool little trimaran, for those that don't know the history of this design, Bernard Rhodes designed and built the original Klis back in the...
Pvc is great for many things in boat construction but it has a few deficiencies, even with proper prep it does not bond particularly well, ok ,...
