Tight bag, cloth or process materials bridging the chine. Change cloth cut so that one piece butts into the corner and the other overlaps. This...
Two piece mold with internal vacuum bag. You can arrange to have one half of the laminate stand proud of the mold flange and lap inside the other...
I seriously recommend using a pre formulated fairing putty for reasons stated above. 4:1 microballon\ cab-o-sill is about right, but you also need...
So is the flexing due to the hull skin becoming detached from the stringers? Or is is a bigger problem, like the hull laminate sheering in two....
The most usual carbon cloth is about 200 g/ m^2. This is woven from 3k carbon yarn and is the most affordable carbon. There are fabrics woven of...
Gorilla Glue works a treat. You can make it foamier by mixing in a bit of water. EPS isn’t particularly brilliant with regards to water...
With modern glues, you can strip up almost anything. In construction, they call this Oriented Strand Beams, and it really looks like crap wood...
A $100 mold is essentially free. Buy as many as you feel good about throwing away. You will spend more on your first roll of fiberglass, bucket...
Dyekem or equivalent machinist dye found in your local machinist supply shop. Assuming you still have one. If not order on line. The spray paint...
End grain balsa has a higher compression strength than cross grain plywood. So you will be going sideways. If the Balsa hasn’t seen a ton of...
Wood shapes very easily with a 36grit disc on a 5” grinder. There are catalogues full of other well developed wood shaping tools that aren’t...
Good choice. I forgot to mention the most important reason not to use pink foam. Heat. When building up mold thickness the laminate gets quite...
I think you will regret using foam for the reasons stated and because it is a poor substrate, not stiff or stable enough for the fairing process....
Please don’t. A Flying Dutchman is a pretty big stable dinghy. If you want to tame it a bit, replace the enormous Genoa with a more reasonable...
It is better to have the resin buckets below the lowest part of the hull, otherwise you can create a siphon and fill the mold with resin. I have...
Many factors that determine how you build molds. How many parts you want to pull is probably the biggest. What materials you are processing is...
Assembling a female assembly gig out of CNC cut parts. Then use the plating programs available in many CAD programs to pattern whatever planking...
[ATTACH] Attached is picture of a foil I have been developing for single sculls. It is mounted under one of the riggers, can pivot 360 so it...
The effect of C foils is to reduce the fore and aft water plane inertia of the catamaran hull. The volume of the ends is reduced by the amount of...
"Type Forming" is used as a derogatory term for design rules which favor one particular solution over other others that are class legal. For...
