Thanks guys, looks like my ideas are looking decidedly dodgy. I will read up on those links that you posted - you have me intrigued.
Thanks Eric, I did Google Durakore and found this statement:- As with any cored hull, damage below the waterline must be attended to...
Ahhhh, sorry for the confusion..... I do accept your criticisms, and would agree that there will be slightly more 'give' to any compressive...
Hi Rob, thanks for your opinion. My desire to use Balsa planks above end grain stems from a wish to leave the wood grain showing. I too built...
Hi All, I am in the plannings stages of building a composite sailing yacht hull and would like to use Balsa strip as my core material. I wanted...
Hi, Could anybody give me a ROUGH estimate of cost for a 30ft bermudan sloop rig, inc. standing/running rigging and sails. Foresail to be roller...
Hello again, I guess another thread would be logical....... Looked up your original thread by the way - beautiful boat - very similar to that...
You guys! Hansp77 - you make me laugh - I was just trusting to nature - maybe I should be more proactive here, after all, I wasted my youth on...
Thats one at 4 years and one at 10 months by the way!
Ha Ha, I have two boys, 4 and 10 months. I intend to get them intoxicated with the pleasures of sailing then my good lady wife will have no...
Hey sheetwise, Just read all of your post.......... Build it for free???? Go on - I'd love to hear this....... I guess timber prices could be...
Hey all, Thanks for your replies. I do agree that time = money. However, I would rather spend 10 hours doing what I enjoy (boat building) than 1...
Hi all, I am intending to build a boat....... She is a classically styled, long keel 30 footer, to be built in solid CSM / Woven Roving GRP in a...
Do you really think that a few bulbs, IR or not, would be enough to raise the temp of a large surface area, through an insulate (wood) high enough...
My God!!! I feel REALLY stupid - I never even considered a heater!!! The hull is being built upside down and is moulded over a former made from...
I am talking about the production of a large (60ft ish) sailing yacht, where all of the laminating will not be completed in one day. I obviously...
Has anyone any experience of laminating Polyester FRP outdoors in the UK??? Summer daytime temps are high enough to begin a cure, but will the...
Ok, but you are forgetting that the GRP pultrusion has, on a 45mm x 15mm strip, only half (or less) the sectional area (as it is hollow). In...
No, I am suggesting that the 'strip' be a polyester/glass pultrusion, but shaped like a hollow cedar strip. I appreciate that polyester resins...
If a Polyester / glass pultrusion were formed in the section of Cedar 'speedstrip', but hollow, would it not be possible to build up a lightweight...
