I have a new steel gas tank that is giving me fits. In this tank there is a level float that mounts into the tank with about a 2" inspection...
Hey everyone, its been a long time since I posted. I wanted to share a project I've had on the back burner for a long time that I finally...
A customer mentioned them and I looked into it. They look pretty simple. It would be cool to see if one could be built. Anyone done anything in...
If anyone's interested, I was invited to share a sailboat building blog over at Sailing Anarchy. We've been documenting how we build our 26' sport...
My prepreg friends are always laughing because they can use extremely light honeycomb core and, seeing we do infusion, we can't. With infusion...
I see a lot of threads about marine plywood and that got me thinking about this. Where many tend to use plywood in their boats, we make up...
Does anyone know how well vinyl ester resin gips to carbon as opposed to glass fabric? Is it close to the same, or does it grip better on one or...
We have boat will hum pretty loudly at different speeds. Keel? rudder? Anyone have experience with something like this? Thanks! -jim lee
I've read that "VE is not as easy to work with as poly." Or at least things along those lines. My question is; Why do people say that? I know I'm...
I keep reading threads about designing ocean passage makers for those that have no money. Although fun to read, they seem to go nowhere. Here's...
So we did all the easy bits, we developed a really cool sailboat. All the tooling everything. Now we have to figure out how much it costs to...
How well does powder coating work for keeping things from corroding? Is it better or worse than paint? thanks! -jim lee
I notice a lot of scattered infusion questions. Maybe we could discuss the all here? I just thought it might be nice to have a central place to...
Not a boat, but the same as a submarine. I'd like to build a composite vacuum chamber. For now, two hemispheres radius R with a small return...
Hello everyone, My kids wanted to play and charge their iPods in the boat. From this and through a wild set of circumstances, we ended up...
One of the locals visited us when we shot our deck mold infusion. While we were running around shooting the mold, she shot video of us. Here's the...
We've run into something that's giving us fits. Wormholes in the infusion. We are making molds using infusion and we are seeing where small air...
We've been having no end of troubles with pre release building molds. On the plugs.. 3 - 4 coats of wax PVA tooling gelcoat 2 coats to build...
We're in the process of tooling up a new 25' sailboat. Its an entry level trailerable sailboat. Something to take the wife and kiddies out on the...
