100 dollar boat ehh.. any limit on materal and dimensions?...style?
on this point there is a well known aircraft crash, boeing model, the rear pressure door failed because of a failed repair patch a specific test...
i suggest you price a second container angainst structural steel and concrete costs......personally i think cutting a container and laying it open...
my instincts say that in oorder to ballast a Single! container properly you would just about have to sink it to a draft of 5'-6'..and even then it...
thank you , actually i left off the oregon coast oak due to the fact that most of the exsisting stands are at risk from sudden oak death..a...
actually if one Grew a boat out of a single steel molocule now that would be hi tek. sigh i considered ,wood,ferrocrete<naaa bad...
and Sonadora just what does this reply have to do with the thread in general ??? scratches head.....
shipyard/boatyard ,i personally live in norther puget sound area ,considering most boats/ships are not trailerable and so are launched directly...
quietly gather information. no info no case....or whatever...course back then industrial complacency about sutch things seems to have been...
well this is my best known source for hi tech eleteric dc and chargers, motors, batteries rechargerable ,remote control systems applicable to...
yea but how to right her w out sending her straight to the bottom i think they need a tidal sand flat in shallow water and a couple of tugs...
if the boat was suspect and said "Expert" worked with or worked on the design with the review group, then said "Expert" should not be allowed as a...
if i was haveing one built for myself ,the foredeck is fine ,id choose either 1 have the rear bulkhead moved back 13" or 2 move the whole...
iv looked at it, and thought about it,and looked at it agian,,, the thing that bugs me the most is they dident wrap the upperworks around the...
i think most of us agree that you'll be happier with it properly taken care of...and while swimming is fun haveing to forceably do so in cold!...
interesting boat..though it appears a bit nose heavy to me...heavy shoulders??on the front of the pilothouse??? to far forward??? ..something...
as somone else pointed out to me recently even ships of VLCC mostly use only 1/2" plate on the hull...its the frameing that matters most... lots...
thanks Mike, most of what i know about metals i picked up from a swordmaker, and by being observant n i really aprecate the information and...
my vote currently goes to steel.rivited construction...for hull/frameing.wood upperworks.i like clear coat myself, under consideration is...
no i wasent really looking to economise with bad fasteners. iv always had problems with reg pattern woodscrews splitting wood..stripping the drive...
